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Question

Your mother told you a story about a 14-year-old patient that she saw in the early 1980's when she was a nurse in a gynecologist's office. Your mother's first contact with the young girl was after she vomited in the waiting room. She told your mother that she started feeling ill the night before. She had been having unusually heavy menstrual bleeding and reported having a fever earlier that morning. The young patient complained of chills and had a diffuse rash on her arms and legs. A physician arrived on the scene and he and your mother helped her to an examining room. Your mother checked her temperature and her blood pressure while the doctor asked her some questions. His first question was whether her neck was stiff or painful. She answered no, but the doctor ordered a lumbar puncture (tap) anyway. The patient was starting to look dizzy and her blood pressure was low: 90/70. The doctor asked her if she had ever had sexual intercourse and the patient answered that she had not. When the patient's mother came in from parking the car the doctor asked if her immunizations were up to date. The mother confirmed that they.