[albrewer]

I recently had to make an emergency visit to a hospital in a major city, with a really weird presentation.

Within 45 minutes of arrival they had figured out what was immediately wrong and had me hooked up to an IV drip of stuff to fix it. An hour later, a specialist for my issue came and talked to me about the problem and had an idea for a root cause. I was held overnight for observation and had several more tests run; by the time I left the next morning I had a root-cause diagnosis and a prescription to fix it.

[AlbertCory]

"IV drip" - that rang a bell. 25 years ago I was admitted to a hospital with severe abdominal pain. They had a surgeon who was preparing me, mentally, for a temporary colostomy. Fortunately, that IV drip fixed me up within half an hour.

Those antibiotics, man. They work.