Posted on 10/17/2014 5:00:34 AM PDT by Zakeet
During my years of medical training, back in the good old days, my professors hammered one very important aspect of medicine into our heads over and over: During a medical crisis, someone has to be in charge. There cannot be 20 voices in the room rendering opinions when somebody’s life is at stake.
A prime example is when there is a code blue in a hospital setting where a patient is having a heart attack; there’s always somebody running the code, directing the staff with specific instructions on how to bring the patient back.
You could take that same example to the operating room, where the chief surgeon runs the show, and the rest of the medical staff is there to actively participate in the cohesive approach to saving a patient’s life.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – America’s supposed fearless leader when it comes to public health -- seems to have lost sight of this very basic medical technique, instead pointing fingers and playing the blame game as two health care workers who cared for America’s patient zero, Thomas Eric Duncan, were diagnosed with Ebola virus in the past week. As more details emerge about how they became infected, it seems to point to a lack of leadership.
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Quality medical care is achieved with strong leadership. It’s a lesson learned by providing active clinical care to in a patient-focused setting.
And that is why I am calling for Frieden's resignation.
Unfortunately, when you get bureaucratic doctors running the show, whose days are spent sitting in meetings, reading statistics and debating policies -- the lack of experience shows during a genuine health threat.
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You Freepers should remain calm ... we know what we are doing ... we really do ... although we need more funding ... and we may need an Ebola czar ... and Dallas screwed up, not us ... even though they did what we said ... but all is well ... so remain calm ... and blame somebody else!
A doctor who is more of a politician than a health care professional is a far greater threat to all of us than ebola.
Life is funny that way.
Do you think this will awaken even the Low Info Voters of the complete abdication of responsibility at every turn by this Administration? I don’t either. Our country has been so indoctrinated by Leftist educators I fear it will not be a successful, prosperous country again. Please vote Republican this November. Even if you have to hold your nose.
Watching these radical America haters destroying the WH self combust would be has pretty satisfying if these radicals were not so GD dangerous to the innocent people like these poor nurses .
Close the Borders and flights now ,
Third world hell hole Nigeria did it.
I agree with your post #3
Great statement .
Stop these traitors before they kill us all.
The leftwing New York Daily News blasted President Ø on its cover Thursday morning. Referring to the federal government's appallingly incompetent response to the American Ebola outbreak, the front page headline next to the president's photo read, "For God's Sake, Get a Grip."
Obola is responsible for the scare and the sick nurses...chaos at any cost
The CDC and ‘official’ explanations and excuses and advice is beyond credulity. They contradict themselves, many times in the same statement/speech.
As Rush L pointed out yesterday, CDC’s Freiden contradicted himself in the same sentence regarding the possibility of catching the disease from someone on a bus.
The CDC and ‘officials’ are still playing politics, instead of acting in a capacity of responsibility regarding the general health and well-being of the general population.
Just the number of people-of-interest related to the plane that flew the female nurse from Dallas to Cleveland is now up to around 1,000.
The LIVs that pay a little attention will hear that Obama held a meeting and be satisfied that he's handling the situation.
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