The locals vs. the Feds vs. the unions vs. the locals ... in what we referred to down on the farm as a p*****g contest!
Posted on 10/17/2014 4:47:13 AM PDT by Zakeet
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas lashed back Thursday at nurses' allegations that it had put workers at risk with shoddy protection policies and sloppy handling of waste while treating a Liberian man who died of the Ebola virus.
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The hospital's response -- its second in two days -- in part shifted responsibility to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to the protocols the agency issued this summer to guide the handling of a patient infected by the virus, which is thought to have killed more than 4,400 people in West Africa. The hospital said the protocols changed frequently, frustrating caregivers and management.
The hospital also blasted "third parties who ... are seeking to exploit a national crisis." That was a dig at the National Nurses United union, which does not represent the Dallas hospital's nurses, but which made their complaints available to the media.
"Many of the comments we have seen or heard in the media are only loosely based on fact, but are often out of context and sensationalized," the hospital statement said. "Others are completely inaccurate."
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The locals vs. the Feds vs. the unions vs. the locals ... in what we referred to down on the farm as a p*****g contest!
The Dallas Presbyterian doctor made a big mistake taking blame for this. He should have stood by his people and pointed blame right at the cdc and their boss Obama for letting these people onto the country and for doing so without properly notifying hospitals. The hospitals should be loudly calling fir a ban on flights out of there
Where are the patriots ? Where are those in authority who recognize gat the government is our employee and not the other way around
Gee, let me think about that one...
Notice this...only in the last several days is the term ‘biosafety level-4 pathogen’ beginning to enter the news cycle. I am telling everyone I know to google it and see how the CDC and the military handle this type of stuff in the lab. Very specific precautions include negative pressure isolation rooms and separate decontamination rooms...just to name several. The administration appears to think the way Doctors without Borders has to handle this in Liberia should be our standard of care here.
Everyone is posturing and gearing up for the inevitable avalanche of lawsuits to follow.
It’s Official.
More time and energy will now be expended shuffling blame than dealing with the virus.
MSF protocols for ebola patients far exceed those of our CDC. MSF has lost the fewest medicos of any NGO treating ebola patients so far.
The nurses in Dallas would have been MUCH safer had they followed MSF protocols rather than CDC ones.
I was talking about this Ebola nightmare with the wife of a local hospital employee. Part of her husband’s job is to order supplies for the hospital. He told her he can no longer order the needed gear to handle one Ebola case at his hospital. It is all on back order. And he said that the CDC keeps changing specifications, and that is costly as well as irresponsible. My friend has a PhD in a medical related field, but she is clueless about this virus and how it should be handled. She has learned a lot in the last two weeks. Her eyes popped out of her head when I told her there had been 436 casualties among health care workers treating Ebola patients.
Just to add to the fire...another nurse or hospital worker from there is currently on a Caribbean cruise near Belize...She is currently being quarantined. 3000+ passengers on board. Belize will not let any of them off the ship...
How in the world did this person decide it was a good thing to go on a cruise?
Most of our medical supplies these days are made in China. If China has its own medical crisis, or just wants to tighten the screws on us, we’re screwed.
You can't expect a hospital which has never dealt with this to be successful overnight whereas CDC is supposed to be the experts in this kind of stuff.
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