Chicago area pediatrician spreading TB (tuberculosis)
Okay, so here’s the real question: If a pediatrician is going around with TB and quite possibly spreading it to newborns and children, how good of a doctor can she be if she failed to recognize her own symptoms?!?! Wouldn’t TB symptoms be Medical School 101? (Shouldn’t she have her license taken away just for that??)
A Northwestern University doctor-in-training potentially exposed hundreds of patients, including infants, at three Chicago-area hospitals to tuberculosis in what is being called an unusual case of a medical-care provider putting patients’ health at risk.
The 26-year-old female pediatric resident was diagnosed Tuesday with TB at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after experiencing symptoms consistent with the infectious disease, hospitals and the Chicago Department of Public Health said. Symptoms of “active” TB include coughing, night sweats, fever, chills and weight loss.
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