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."
PING!
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."
PING!
‘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.
How many white patients have survived Ebola? Two?
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.
Did his family get the Bill for treatment yet ?
It looks as though a large “settlement” is going to be the only way to get the “family” to shut up. I love this country!!!
Of course he knew his symptoms were those of Ebola. The scourge is visible to any and all who walk the streets of Liberia. Whole chunks of families are dying. Dead are lying in the streets. Hospitals won’t take them. People are crying and praying in the capital city of Monrovia. This man absolutely knew he was exposed and that he was almost certainly going to get the disease. That’s why he came to the U.S. He knew he’d be back in the emergency room in short order. That way he could feign ignorance. All flights and trains and buses out of Liberia and Guinea and other affected countries should be ceased until the disease is brought under control. The borders should be sealed.
FWIW, the pediatricians would never let me bring my young kids in until the temperature got to 104. This is more than one doctor in more than one physical location.
Maybe sending him home at 103 wasn’t out of line.
People do not get admitted to the hospital for 103 temp. Duncan and friends KNEW it was potentially ebola but the hospital staff did not. Obviously they would not have sent him home if they had any thought it was ebola. Those poor people have been quarantined themselves.
The blame lies more with Duncan and friends for not mentioning ebola. THEY KNEW but were afraid of Duncan being charged with a crime BY HIS OWN COUNTRY. At that point they could not admit he knew. I am not saying they knew he had it. I am saying they KNEW he MIGHT have it.
Get the hard drive to their computer and find out what they knew. I will bet you the marriage was also a ploy to fast citizenship and nothing more. “Love of his life”? He got another woman pregnant at the same time. He had not seen his 19 year old son for 17 years.
I am sorry he died but they should just take their near million dollars in services (hospital, doctors, emergency vehicle, hazmat clean-up, free accommodations at house in gated community, etc.) and walk away thankful.
Many years ago, I ended up in the emergency room with a bad kidney infection. My temperature hit 103. The ERw as packed and hospital rooms were in short supply. I remember the ER doctor yelling “This woman has a temp of 103. She’s too sick to be in the ER. Get her a room, ICU if nothing else is available.” And I was out of the Er and in a room in 20 minutes.
I was surprised that they let Ebola guy leave with a temp that high.
So far.