Excellent summary. My wife works at a hospital as well. She is in admin, but has spent a lot of time working with the ER as she is on, what I call, the SHTF committee to deal with mass injury events (plane crashes, pandemics, etc.)
The process of moving through her ER is EXACTLY what you describe.
What you don’t touch on is any language barrier, fear about “honest answers” and the impact on him and his family, and other problems with dealing with foreign patients.
When you combine the presentation is flu-like, the cultural differences in treatment, and the fact that most ERs are running on shoestring...it is a mixture that is rife with potential problems.
One difference is that her hospital has been doing all sorts of training lately—mostly because they are expecting a huge flu impact this year.
Thanks for your informative post. I hope you copied it. You will be posting it a lot in the coming days.
I’m reposting this link for posterity:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/27/health/ebola-hiv-drug/
“Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia — seemingly successfully”