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Flu Symptoms Sent Boston Mayor to Hospital, Where Doctors Found More | Redux

Flu Symptoms Sent Boston Mayor to Hospital, Where Doctors Found More

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When Boston Mayor Thomas Menino ended his vacation in Italy short this fall and checked into a Boston hospital complaining of a respiratory infection, it led doctors to find and treat a blood clot in his leg, a fracture in his back, an infection around the fracture and type 2 diabetes. Cold and flu symptoms from respiratory infections can be a hassle, but sometimes that fever and cough can be good for just getting people to the doctor. “That’s why every patient needs a careful evaluation because every once in a while, what the patient thinks is the flu or reports as the flu is not,” said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

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Thomas Menino

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Dr. William Schaffner

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0.123156“That’s why every patient needs a careful evaluation because every once in a while, what the patient thinks is the flu or reports as the flu is not,” said Dr. William Schaffner, ...
0.0484938“That’s why every patient needs a careful evaluation because every once in a while, what the patient thinks is the flu or reports as the flu is not,” said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. “I would say 99 percent of people who present to the emergency room and doctor’s office with symptoms of influenza — that is cough, fever and the like — are certainly going to have influenza.”
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Morris

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-0.197865“It is a run of bad luck,” Morris said ...
-0.0381651“It is a run of bad luck,” Morris said of Menino. “He will rebound from this.”
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  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.2360301
  • Mean: -0.11801505
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Dr. Dale Adler

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.12325

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0.0615653“He was feeling poorly enough to end what was supposed to be a very pleasant vacation, and when he got here, he was very weak and very washed out,” Dr. Dale Adler, Menino’s doctor, said ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0615653
  • Mean: 0.0615653
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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