In late July 2005, Julia was having some flu-like symptoms. Fatigue, sore throat, fever off and on. She rallied as needed to work at the Sierra Club, do her weekly babysitting job and work on Saturdays at bridal shop downtown. On Sunday, July 31, she had a nosebleed that was hard to stop. We took her to Urgent Care that night and after a quite thorough exam, they concluded that she had a kidney infection. They sent her home with a prescription for an antibiotic.
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What Happened to Julia 2025 (pdf)
DownloadSome people--medical folk, especially--are interested in more detials about the errors that led to Julia's death. In 2017, the journal DIAGNOSIS published an article, "Learning from Tragedy: The Julia Berg Story." Welcome and I were invited to add our perspective to the article, as was Dr. Phil Kibort, who was Chief Medical Officer at the hospital when Julia died.
Here is a link to a PDF of the article...
Learning from tragedy--the Julia Berg story (pdf)
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