Posted on 10/12/2014 8:38:32 AM PDT by knak
The state health department may investigate a Dallas hospital’s handling of the nation’s first Ebola case as medical records released Friday raise more troubling questions about the Liberian patient’s initial treatment.
Thomas Eric Duncan had fever that hit as high as 103 degrees and Ebola-like symptoms, including abdominal pain, dizziness, a headache and reduced urination, when he arrived Sept. 25 at the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, according to hospital records the family gave to The Associated Press.
The records depict a man far sicker than hospital officials had initially indicated, with details that left some infectious disease experts aghast.
Duncan told an emergency room nurse that he had recently been in Africa, where an Ebola outbreak has put U.S. health care workers on alert for the disease. He said he was in severe pain that ranked 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Instead of being placed in isolation as federal guidelines recommend, Duncan was given a series of tests, including CT scans to check for appendicitis, stroke and other medical conditions. He was sent home with antibiotics and Tylenol, records show.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Did the Duncan family get the bill for treatment yet ?
Barn door...Horse....Horse...Barn door”What difference does it make?
The Titanic is sinking — but the race pimp orchestra is on the poop deck still playing the same tires songs.
This sounds like a joke to me. An inquiry because someone died from an incurable disease.
Never, unfortunately.
PING!
What happens if this new guy today (white) lives ... And Duncan (black) died?
Racism?
Nice spin. The Dallas News does NOT mention how Duncan FAILED to mention the minor detail that he held a fully Ebola-infected woman in his arms in Liberia and knew she later died. But...but...racism!
The feds are worried about how people in Africa will 'feel' if we don't let them flee here with their diseases.
Next they're worried about heath care workers in their space suits...
Last - and least are Americans - the feds don't give a damn about American citizens who might spend 6 hours on a flight next to a person with ebola... no space suit, no gloves, mo masks... nothing.. for 6 hours... maybe 8 hours...
(pssst!), (Dallas Hospital), (helpful hint), (ooze-lay the ard-hay rives-day)
No sense in trying to scapegoat the hospital. When you’ve got a patient with projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea, some germs are going to get lose. And what do you want to bet that most of those hospital workers had just had a flu shot, which challenged their immunity and opened them wide up to anything else that was lingering about?
The first thrown under the bus was the Medical Center's computer systems. "He was released from the ER because of a computer glitch"
These systems are connected with Obamacare so they had to walk that back.
But I have a feeling this is going to be one of those Teachable Moments about how unprepared we are for a biological attack. Made worse by federal consolidation of healthcare where incompetence is the norm not the exception.
It will only strengthen the case that Ebola was created by mad white scientists to kill black people.
Official cause of death on the death certificate, “ Breach of Protocol. “
Maybe the state needs to inquire why our government is allowing travel from west Africa
We are in such denial if we are allowing the state to go after some unit clerk or nurse or doctor who is working so hard taking care of people every day they don’t read the news and put it together that the government and the stupid airlines are so misguided that they are flying these people in
The frequency with which federal institutions have Hopeless Hardrive suggests that there is much sharing of others bodily fluids across Departments.
I love the not CDC but CDR - Centers for Disease Redistribution
Well. He won’t get Zmapp.. But this guy today is in better shape than. Duncan.
And we should investigate why the government is going to allow this Duncan who isn’t an American, to run up a $500,000 bill at this hospital that the government wants to demonize
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