Actual Conversation
Written by Brian on October 23, 2009 – 11:32 pm -Phone call with family member of MR patient with aspiration pneumonia:
Family Member: “How’s she doing?”
BigBri: “She’s got pneumonia…”
Family Member: “Oh no…how did she get pneumonia?”
BigBri: “Sometimes people have difficulty swallowing or for whatever reason some saliva or food gets into the lungs and causes a serious pneumonia. She will need at least a few days of IV antibiotics.”
Family Member: “Oh…she has pneumonia in her LUNGS.”
BigBri: “…”
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