Community Acquired Pneumonia

October 10, 2019
pneumonia

COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA “You know you have Community Acquired Pneumonia“, they said to me in Emergency at the hospital.  I knew I had Pneumonia, but what is Community Acquired Pneumonia?  What did they mean?  I soon discovered that basically it’s hospital terminology for “she didn’t get it here in hospital”, but to be more formal “Community-acquired pneumonia is defined as pneumonia that is acquired outside the hospital”. I’d been sick for over two-weeks (about 15 days) and wasn’t getting better. …

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