If fevers reach 100.4 degrees

[Guest guest]

The mantra at the end of every visit to Sloan-Kettering,

where I had been a patient for six years, is that if you

have a fever of higher than 100.4 degrees, you head

immediately to their Emergency Care facility. They lost

several CLL patients to fever-related sepsis prior to

instituting this policy.

Is this the standard practice? I'm now at another well-

regarded New York hospital, and no mention has been made of

such a policy.

Mark