Doctor who taught pupils how not to get sepsis caught disease himself
(WorldNews Health)

Register for our free newsletter HE teaches students how to spot the life-threatening condition. But, when Dr Michael Porter developed sepsis, it was his brother who made the diagnosis that saved his life. Michael developed the potentially lethal condition after infection spread from a cut in his hand. The sepsis was spreading through his body fogging his judgment in seeking urgent medical treatment. Michael, 45, a lecturer in molecular genetics, was visiting his family in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, when he became ill. He said: `Two days earlier I had been repairing the lock on my garden gate, when I scratched my hand on a nail.` The University of Central Lancashire lecturer added:...