Arctic Nurse Blog-FUO defined

The fever of unknown origin (FUO) , for all you non-nurse types who might want to know, is an oft-used diagnosis when nothing else will do. It is used, especially with pediatric patients to incorporate utilizing antibiotics and to prolong medical billing. ..especially nice for those medicaid patients. While many times an infectious agent can be identified by lab tests and various bodily substance cultures, many times it cannot. Now that bacteria have learned to mutate faster than antibiotics can kill them* it is only a matter of time before nanogenetics are evolved enough to form nanobacteriods that will become TOTALLY impervious to ANYTHING we throw at them.

Another defining term for this blog might be that FUO is the state of permanance (temperance? tolerance?) resulting from living and working in a society that is so ill on so many levels that an altered or gray (fever) state is required to mentally draw the veil over what is , in order to function as one will. Fever is the body's way of telling us that something is wrong, please fix it, we want to return to homeostasis. From the Latin febris, 'to burn'.
Perhaps sustaining a fevered state is the way to burn through?
But sustained fever can cause. drain bamage.

TOO LATE!








* hu-mons are outnumbered by bugs some 20 billion to one. We cannot win