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What happened to Julia?

    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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A deeper dive...

Some 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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