Either way "there is a problem, and we need to find the answer to it," he said, adding that it was "conspicuous" that all the white Ebola patients in the U.S. survived "and the one black man died."
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Posted on 10/11/2014 1:07:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room — a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system, his medical records show.
Despite telling a nurse that he had recently been in Africa and displaying other symptoms that could indicate Ebola — fever, sharp headache and abdominal pain — the Liberian man who would become the only person to die from the disease in the U.S. underwent a battery of tests and was eventually sent home.
Duncan's family provided his medical records to The Associated Press — more than 1,400 pages in all.
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Either way "there is a problem, and we need to find the answer to it," he said, adding that it was "conspicuous" that all the white Ebola patients in the U.S. survived "and the one black man died."
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‘A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services said the agency was considering investigating the hospital for compliance with state health and safety laws.’
Well, if so, they had better investigate our idiotic government officials and politicians for not complying with federal law to provide the people in this country with protection.
Whoever sent him home was not thinking he had ebola, not thinking our stupid government was stupid enough to not have shut out all routes from and or connecting from West Africa.
Period.
I don’t care.
If people got turned away in 1847 from Ellis Island after a month on a boat for having a communicable disease, we, who are just so much more superior and smart can figure this out.
Obama will give them an extra mil for being black.
But one reason why medical care is so expensive -- and why many people do not actually have ready access to quality (expensive) care -- is that there are so many lawsuits. Medical establishments have to follow so many rules, have to cover themselves thoroughly by ordering so many tests, and this kind of carefulness and caution drives up costs so that the only way anything is "affordable" is to have the government get intimately involved and subsidize so much of it -- which really exacerbates the whole problem.
I'd be happy with a system in which suing for medical malpractice was almost impossible -- but care was common, and cheap, and the incompetent people were well-known and easily avoided.
If Duncan didn't get the care he needed, I'm sorry. But the rush toward a lawsuit is a terrible solution.
If Duncan knew he had Ebola, why didn’t he just tell the ER staff that? Why make them guess, and run the risk that they might guess wrong?
Duncan assumed ALL liability for any and ALL mis-steps in his care due to his own negligence. Simply informing the triage unit of his nationality was NOT enough.
Had Duncan BEEN FORTHCOMING about his exposure to Ebola, the entire sequence of events upon arrival at the first hospital visit would have been drastically altered. Instead, Duncan's decision to withhold the fact that was directly exposed to Ebola 4 days prior to travel, he potentially and recklessly exposed untold numbers of professional and caring individuals tending to his immediate care.
We approach zero hour this week, as ALL those individuals who were exposed to Duncan and the materials used to treat him either stay healthy (Thank GOD) or begin to show symptoms.
The mean incubation period was estimated to be 12.7 days (standard deviation 4.31 days), indicating that about 4.1% of patients may have incubation periods longer than 21 days.
Any victims of Duncan's reckless exposure should sue the family and any party who benefits from any instigated legal $henanigan$.
JUST FOR THE RECORD:
Several reports from MSM document several family members going on record to deny any knowledge of Duncan's exposure to Ebola. A few examples:
Wilfred Smallwood Duncan's half-brother said that when Duncan first visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, neither Duncan nor the hospital knew then that he had Ebola.
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"Family members said Duncan did not know that he, too, had contracted Ebola before he boarded a flight. When he received the diagnosis, he told Troh, whom he called “the love of his life,” that he regretted bringing the virus to Dallas and possibly exposing her."
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[Younger Jallah]is a 35-year-old nurse's aide and the daughter of Louise Troh, Duncan’s girlfriend. He traveled from Ebola-racked Liberia to visit Troh on Sept. 21. Troh and Duncan met in West Africa. They have a college-age son."I knocked at the door and he gave me a big hug," Jallah told the Journal, describing her initial encounter with him and the first time she had ever seen him."...
"She said she knew well that Ebola was a big problem in Liberia. Duncan didn’t tell her he had been in contact with anyone who was sick but she wasn’t taking any chances."
Eh, it’s only 103. Send him home with a damp paper towel and an ice cube.
They probably sent the “one black man” home because they were fearful of being accused of racial profiling. ENOUGH WITH THE PC NONSENSE ALREADY!!!!
I have been sent home with a 103° fever myself for flu
so, I see no problems with this
He had seen the death and destruction in Africa, and thought nothing of bringing the disease over here.
Spread it to the community? Well why not?
RESPONSIBILITY
How many white patients have survived Ebola? Two?
Yes, but that’s in a general population where flu is expected.
Hospitals everywhere should have been on alert for possible EBOLA cases when this guy presented.
They really screwed up IMO.
You’d have to know a lot about each case to make a determination.
The general health of the idividual
The lag time after infection
The relative stage treatment started in
The methods used to treat
This is still so new that people can try different things. There’s probably not rock solid protocol yet.
Exactly. Are we supposed to quarantine every patient who shows up with a fever and stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhea? Hospitals simply don't have the resources. It would grind our health care system to a halt, killing countless more who can't receive care for other ailments because there are no available beds and no available doctors.
You think the ERs are fun now? Wait until we're treating every patient running a fever as possible Ebola. And this will be the end-result of the Duncan family/Jesse Jackson grift-a-thon.
I’ve had 104 three times; once with each baby due to severe mastitis. Each case was worse than the migrain I recently suffered, just to put things into perspective. Each trip to the ER I told them I was nursing and having acute breast pain; i.e., that I had mastitis. Why didn’t this cretin inform the ER staff his suspicions? Come on! He had physical contact with an Ebola Vic!
I think the hospital is being criticized to cover for these people’s lawsuit. Moving on up but not like the Jeffersons. While someone didn’t relay some of his information to the doctors, one has to ask why in the world didn’t Duncan himself disclose to any of the ER medical team that he had been working with Ebola patients in Africa only a few days before boarding that flight to come here.
Eric Duncan was desperately wanting to get to America but you cannot justify his actions for not telling the ER nurses and doctors. He jeopardized their health as well. I can’t see them not helping him there. Not buying it.
Do you really think the people who sent him home, knew that he had Ebola. This is not a Liberian medical team that operates from huts. Duncan’s friend has admitted Duncan would do anything to get to the US. His friend said he didn’t fault Eric for that because most do anything to get out of there. His friend went on to say, by not telling the hospital he had been around the Ebola patients was wrong.
It seems like the Duncan’s family are looking to move on up. Read their own comments. Jesse Jackson is their friend. They are being used and see money at the end of the rainbow.
Uh...Ellis Island wasn't used for immigration until the 1890's.
#14 "You’d have to know a lot about each case to make a determination."-DoughtyOne
In addition to the short list you provided...there is one additional consideration which complicated Duncan's situation - 'CONSENT'. Because there was no blood relation at the hospital, the family members who were with Louise Troh are upset because none of them had legal standing to offer consent for treatment. see here
Duncan dug his own grave by lying directly and indirectly, by omission. Had he fessed up about his direct contact with Ebola to the triage nurse or to his family he would have had a fighting chance to survive.
Duncan is fully responsible for his own demise.
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