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Six days after his initial complaint, the patient returned with worsening symptoms and was admitted to the hospital. No bacterial or viral infections could be found, but the patient was treated with antibiotics anyway as his symptoms suggested that his respiratory distress and other symptoms were due to some sort of infection. The fact that his condition continued to worsen without any notable effect from broad-spectrum antibiotics suggests that perhaps the physicians erred in this assessment, and that the negative results of the many tests for infectious agents administered to the patient were more accurate than the physicians thought. Focusing attentions more immediately on other potential causes and more direct methods of symptom relief, either in addition to or instead of the antibiotic treatment and observation that constituted the primary means of treatment at this stage, might have prevented or at least postponed the need for intubation and the mechanical assistance of the patient's breathing that was implemented on the fourth day of his hospitalization.


It was only after the patient's condition continued to worsen that more invasive tests were conducted, showing that the patient was actually suffering from an advanced case of influenza, exacerbating his already present asthma. At the point that this was discovered, the patient's respiratory distress had already become quite extreme and, as it turned out, irreversible. More aggressive treatment at the earlier stages rather than a dismissal as a standard case of acquired pneumonia and exacerbated asthma might have led to more conclusive determinations and effective treatments early on......

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