Florida: Flu may have led to doctor's death

[tetano]

A local physician died suddenly last week from what his medical associate and his wife said was pneumonia caused by the flu.

Joseph Goldberg, 66, was an internist and kidney specialist who for the past eight years practiced out of his office at Mile Marker 91.5 in Tavernier. Goldberg had practiced in the Upper Keys and Homestead for 18 years, according to wife Susan.

He became ill on Feb. 21, Susan said. Two days later, with Goldberg's condition worsening, he self-administered a flu test, which showed he was positive for the Influenza B virus.

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[Emily]

Re: Florida: Flu may have led to doctor's death

I wonder if he really had the flu.

Dr. Ken Ahonen, director of the Mariners Hospital emergency room, also said he knows of no flu-related deaths among patients treated at the Tavernier hospital this year.

That assessment includes Goldberg, who Ahonen said was tested for the Influenza A and Influenza B after he was admitted on the night of Feb. 24. The results came back negative.

Ahonen could not explain why the results at Mariners would differ from Goldberg's self-administered test a day earlier.

"I really don't know what to make of that," he said.