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 a 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 details 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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