A multidisciplinary medical team at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital provided expert care for Dorothea Berkhout.
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EFFORT THANKS TO THE EXPERTISE AND DEDICATION OF SEVERAL SPECIALISTS, A PATIENT RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS INFECTION.
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lu season was in full force, so when Dorothea Berkhout began experiencing chills and a high fever in January 2018, she initially assumed she was just one of the latest victims. Two weeks later, the Associate Dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers University began to feel worse, not better. She saw her primary care physician, who ordered a chest X-ray and routine blood tests to look for signs of infection. When the X-ray revealed fluid in her chest and the bloodwork showed liver abnormalities, her physician sent her to the Emergency Department (ED) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH). Thea arrived on a Friday evening. The ED team sprang into action and diagnosed her with multiple liver abscesses, masses
Summer 2020
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