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Bill Stanley, a businessman in Pasadena, Texas, had recently founded Ventech Engineers, Inc., an engineering construction business that designed modular oil refineries and shipped them to destinations around the globe. A few doors down, Thomas J. Murphy, MD, opened his medical practice as a solo primary care physician.
After examining the older person, emergency room doctors diagnosed an infection and sent him home with antibiotics. He fell repeatedly during the next few days and wound up back in the hospital—this time with acute kidney and liver failure.