Three Visits: The Patient's Story

Send us Fan Mail  A previously healthy adult traveler presents to a community emergency department with cough, sore throat, headache, and a tight neck. She returns the next morning, and again that same night. Each visit, the clinical picture sharpens. Each visit, the differential narrows in the wrong direction. By the third visit, bacterial meningitis is no longer a possibility a workup could have caught — it's a diagnosis announcing itself in the resuscitation bay.Support the show