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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (815386)	11/4/2014 8:49:57 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577883

>> Why wasn't he hospitalized for a temp that high? People are not automatically hospitalized for having a 103 temp. “I have certainly discharged many people with a 103-degree fever,” said Dr. Kristi L. Koenig, professor of emergency medicine and director of the Center of Disaster Medical Services at UC Irvine. There are other considerations, such as, “are they able to walk, or talk or eat? It’s not just the number,” she said. “In general, the presence of the fever doesn’t mean that patient X needs to be admitted,” said Dr. David Pigott of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “It is a mark of infection. “There are other causes of fevers,” he continued. “It is not unusual to see someone with strep throat and a fever of 101, 103. Almost all of the time they are released with antibiotics. It is not necessarily linked to the need for admission.” “There is no fever that is the sole determinant of whether a patient has a particular disease or whether [he or she] needs to be hospitalized," said Dr. Tom Sugarman, the past president of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Sugarman practices in Berkeley and Antioch. “Typically, we see people all of the time, you can have a fever from a cold, kidney infection, cancer, running a marathon,” he said. “Fever alone is not whether you are hospitalized.”