The Importance of Surgery in a Convalescent Patient

The ship's doctor gave Tom a dose of antibiotics and told him when he got to Luxor, he should go to this polyclinic. By the time we landed a refuel in Senegal, I said, I think you need to get him to a hospital fairly urgently. So Stephanie and Tom end up flying to Frankfurt in Germany. There, Stefan evaluated him and it was clear that he had a big sack of what turned out to be pus behind his stomach. The organism is called Acinetobacter bomani.

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