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Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness

Posted by michael on from the two-aspirin-and-call-in-the-morning dept.

sethadam1 writes "Calling all Slashdoctors! Pat Volkerding, maintainer of Slackware Linux, needs your help. This morning, he posted his very detailed account (mirror) of his battle with Actinomyces here on the Slackware FTP server. Patrick has given his blood, sweat, and tears to the open source community for years in Slackware, one of the oldest surviving Linux distributions. If you can, please help!"

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  1. Re:"if you can, please help" by Isldeur · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Good lord - this guy's gone a little bit loonie. He needs to get medical treatment - not post email messages.

    And that's from an MD. No - I'm not going to prescribe high-dose antibiotics for the guy over the phone. Jesus - does that not make sense to anyone? Go to a hospital and get evaluated. They'll do the proper tests and get him plugged in and probably on the proper antibiotics.

    Besides, this isn't a third-world country where you need to pull strings to get people into a hospital. Go to the ER and get seen there. If he needs to be admitted they'll do it from there.