Posted on 10/16/2014 6:29:06 PM PDT by TigerClaws
An emergency room nurse who treated a fellow nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Dallas is taking time off and retained a noted Fort Lauderdale plaintiffs firm rather than return to work.
Briana Aguirre, 30, contacted Robert W. Kelley of the Kelley/Uustal firm after concluding Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was not adequately protecting staff from the lethal virus, Kelley said.
With Kelley by her side, Aguirre was interviewed Thursday by Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today Show." She told Lauer the biohazard outfits given to nurses left a 3-inch gap below the chin that potentially allowed contaminated fluid to travel to the mouth and nose.
Read more: http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/id=1202673599178/Nurse-at-Dallas-Ebola-Hospital-Hires-Fort-Lauderdale-Lawyer#ixzz3GMT1faNf
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Once again the Obama Administration completely fails and no one is held accountable. The media covers it up and pretends that none of this could have been avoided.
You’re right, mere civil lawsuits are tacky. Criminal charges are in order.
This is conspiracy, and the criminals must be prosecuted.
Government worker/ operative?
Well, bless your sweet heart, dear!
I will assume that you mean well, but find your comments ingenuous, ignorant, and serving only the Obama spin.
I also noticed your sign-up date. Nice try, but you have instantly failed the Freeper “smell-test”.
If things are as bad as the plaintiffs maintain, perhaps the courts won't exist in a decade.
An incentive for a quick settlement?
I am also Penny 4 Thoughts. I have been gone a few years and was not sure I remembered my password. This is the 2nd time I have tried to sign up. You guys need to stop overreacting and running off conservatives.
I do not like Obama or for that matter ANY Democrat. I just do not believe lawsuits are going to help overcome the ebola virus. They will do much more harm than good. That is my opinion. Does that make me unworthy to be a FReeper? Apparently it does.
Good-bye. You can have your forum and run off all who have disagreements with you. In this case you are running off a lifetime never-gonna-change conservative. I am not sure what you are looking for.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Yeah, Frieden was way too busy helping Bloomberg engineer the size of New Yorkers sodas.
For my entire adult life, I’ve been watching movies depicting the cdc swooping in with white hazmat suits and tents and fancy airlock doors etc. competency. They had a plan. Quarantine- nobody in or out.
We see the reality: instead if this uber competent/secret wing of the government, they are the dmv.
These are dark days. We all feel that things are just plain wrong. But- I remind myself that God is on His throne, and ultimately we know the good guys win in the end.
And in the intervening decades, while the courts do whatever they do, people like the litigant will still be on the front lines of infectious diseases, trying their best to save lives while risking their own.
These people deserve to be protected, and I, for one, am very grateful to them. I want them to have the best equipment and topnotch education and advice as they care for patients who might turn out to be my friends and relatives or yours.
IMHO, this is a justified lawsuit; the nurse filing it might still come down with Ebola and even if she doesn’t, her actions are putting the CDC, the Obola administration, and all their flunkies on notice. We the People are NOT to be treated with such casual and offensive and dangerous disrespect. We are not taking it anymore.
In failing to have adequate standards, in failing to hire the best and the brightest advisers who are actually specialists in infectious diseases rather than in politics, the Obola administration has failed and endangered every single citizen of this country. They should all be jailed.
Thank you. A lawyer I knew in my small town had apprenticed with another attorney and never went to law school.
That is absolutely, positively NOT TRUE! We have years and years of experience in dealing with Ebola in Africa. The only way to safely deal with Ebola is full space suits plus having a "buddy" also in a space suit watching every move you make. Then a double, triple anti-viral wash down as you take off the space suits.
Most hospitals in the USA can not contain Ebola. They just are not equipped or trained to do so.
You think lawsuits are tacky? Wait til they start walking off the job because they don’t have adequate PPE!
The point is, she doesn't know whether she has it or not. And that's due to gross carelessness and mismanagement by everyone from Obola down to her immediate supervisor. The lower on the pole you go, the less blame they have. I think this a justified lawsuit and hope the lawyer knows how to navigate the shoals.
The head of the CDC literally talks in circles and you think they’re doing a good job? WTH
Here’s a whole nickel to get you to keep your “thoughts” to yourself.
probably the best lawyer in town. when that word meant something.
Actually you can.
This was a workplace OSHA violation. She can, and honestly should, sue. It would be like if I told a guy to go into an acid cloud with the wrong PPE, and then threatened him when he questioned me.
Even if the employee was not harmed, as the supervisor I placed him in harms way without proper equipment. A near miss (which is what this is hopefully going to be) can still lead to legal consequences.
Honestly, after what I have been hearing about the Dallas hospital, a number of people need serious legal penalties.
I love it when the congressman showed Freedie the picture of him in Africa with a suit on that fully covered him and asked him why he wore more protection than he advised the nurses to wear. Deer in headlights look!
Ahhh, but I see the Mods have already nuked your sorry ass.
Good Moddies !
Where is the SEIU ....those purple shirts are supposed to look after the nurses and medical staff's interests.
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