These are often not picked up until they are at an advanced stage and patients need to be given intravenous antibiotics.

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She was in there for about four weeks, and given intravenous antibiotics.

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In his books "It's Only Temporary, " and "Time on Fire, " Handler wrote that during his months in the hospital, he was given intravenous drugs that were supposed to go to another patient, that nurses tried to give him medications his doctors had forbidden for him and that staff members refused to follow the hospital's posted hygiene precautions for immunosuppressed patients like himself.

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