Pneumonia used in a sentence

Pneumonia in a sentence as a noun

If you did, I would read that as "pneumonia isn't real".That's a complicated question.

Some people might get pneumonia and rarely do healthy people get meningitis.

After visiting the ER with a 108F temp due to pneumonia, I can attest to the fact that ER visits are a rip off.

He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down.

It means never taking a sick day, because the $40 you'd lose that day would mean you couldn't pay rent -- even though your cough clearly lets you know it's pneumonia.

I probably would not say pneumonia is socially constructed.

Most people would work very little time there before leaving to treat allergies, flu, pneumonia and even tuberculosis.

> I'm assuming you wouldn't say "pneumonia is socially constructed".

It's an interesting article but of course the writing deadline was only a part of what killed him. His health declined during the period of being a tramp and working menial jobs in France where he was hospitalized with pneumonia.

The "cold sensations cause pneumonia" folklore this article relies on is as much magical thinking as the homeopathy it invites us to smugly chortle at.

"When children are well-nourished, fully vaccinated, and treated for common illnesses like diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia, the future gets a lot more predictable.

BUT consider you are treating an 80year old man for pneumonia and when he dies the autopsy discovers he had undiagnosed prostate cancer - is that 'really' a medical error death?Then there are around 100,000 deaths due to hospital infections.

Often this was given as pneumonia or similar for people who essentially died of old age. Unfortunately, someone looked at the statistics and discovering that lots of people were dying of pneumonia decided that it needed to be treated, and so now with aggressive treatments people who are at the very end of their lives are kept alive until something else comes along and kills them.

I stopped reading at this point: > ...when Gandhi's wife lay dying of pneumonia and British doctors\n > insisted that a shot of penicillin would save her, Gandhi refused to\n > have this alien medicine injected in her body and simply let her die.\n\nTrue as far as it goes, but a near-slanderous distortion of what actually happened: To those who tried to bolster her sagging morale saying "You will get\n better soon," Kasturba would respond, "No, my time is up.