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> where the medical people describe the infection as a UTI Very interesting. Are you suspecting that the medical diagnosis of a UTI wasn't totally accurate?
by odyssey7 8y ago
> where the medical people describe the infection as a UTI
Very interesting. Are you suspecting that the medical diagnosis of a UTI wasn't totally accurate?
- perl4ever 8y agoNot particularly suggesting it was incorrect. I don't have any other hypothesis, but neither do I know what the mechanism would be for it to cause mental symptoms. It might be that the diagnosis is technically correct but misleading. See: blind men and the elephant. The main issue was just that it recurred and the medical people did not have an overarching theory about what was going on. They seemed to regard the test results and symptoms as just random disconnected facts without a pattern. The belief among some of the relatives of the patient was that the mental symptoms were a harbinger of the UTI and therefore treatment should start sooner. Of course, that's what happens with elderly patients, doctors just don't try that hard, because being old is explanation enough for anything that goes wrong and if you fix one problem another will occur.