A Dog Bite Sent Him to the ER. A Cascade of Missteps Nearly Killed Him.

Becky Krall hurried through the sliding-glass doors of the hospital emergency room around 8 a.m. on Sept. 25, 2015, expecting to see her feverish husband, David, sitting among the patients waiting to see a doctor. Instead Krall, who had left him for about 15 minutes while parking their car, was met by a nurse with an urgent message: Her 50-year-old husband had suddenly become unresponsive.

"A Dog Bite Sent Him to the ER. A Cascade of Missteps Nearly Killed Him." is from the June 16, 2017 Health & Science section of The Washington Post. It was written by Sandra G. Boodman and narrated by Sam Scholl.