The doctor's office just told me that they were not allowed to call in

[pnwmom]

227. "Please don't waste my time with this."

I'm not the one causing you to spend your precious time on an online discussion board!


Remember this sudden death?
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/29/science/the-doctor-s-world-henson-death-shows-danger-of-pneumonia.html
THE untimely death of Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, from pneumonia this month at the age of 53 may have shocked many Americans who believed that bacterial infections no longer could kill with such swiftness.
Antibiotics, vaccines and other health measures have dramatically reduced the incidence and consequences of many bacterial infections. But antibiotics must be carefully selected and they are lifesavers only when given in time. Such drugs cannot always be relied on to be a last-minute salvation, particularly if the microbes have gotten the upper hand by spreading through the body.

SNIP

Dr. David Gelmont, who headed the intensive care team that treated Mr. Henson at New York Hospital, believes he died from toxic shock syndrome produced by the streptococcal bacteria. The condition is similar to the toxic shock epidemic from staphylococcal infections that struck women who used a certain kind of tampon in the early 1980's. Streptococci Group A, the type that killed Mr. Henson, also causes scarlet fever and rheumatic fever. Health officials suspect that Group A is becoming more powerful and is occurring more often.

Antibiotics might have saved Mr. Henson's life if he had come to the hospital a few hours earlier, Dr. Gelmont said, illustrating how speed can count in many types of infections.