[TigersEye]

0bamaCare kills!

[Jim Noble]

It is not going to be possible to isolate every arriving person from West Africa with mild symptoms. There are too many of them, and the resources are scarce.

If they need to be isolated, or quarantined, it should be centralized. Assigning ALL hospitals to be responsible means that no one is responsible.

I’m less sure than I was 48 hours ago that the Texas hospital did something wrong. We’ll see.

There are seven flights a day from Brussels to JFK, EWR, and IAD. Assume 250 pax/flight, that’s 12 250 arrivals/week, 367 500 a month. I picked Brussels because we know you can fly there from Monrovia.

If you lived in Liberia, knew you were exposed, but were not sick (yet), wouldn’t YOU be on one of those flights? OF COURSE YOU WOULD.

This is going to become unmanageable, very quickly.

[jazusamo]

Good piece, EHRs don’t cut it and a recent Doc I was referred to explained when I first saw him that he wanted to personally talk to me about my medical history rather than rely on them.

In my view at this point in time the most dangerous threat to the citizens of this country are the decisions coming out of the WH and the CDC denying travel restrictions.

[Prince of Space]

As a displaced medical transcriptionist due to the ramifications of EMR implementation, all I can say is: I told you so. In addition, the majority of hospitals and clinics in America are now outsourcing their patients’ private medical records to 3rd world countries just to save a buck. This isn’t going to end well, IMO.

[Diogenesis]

pRes_ _ent Obola (D, al Qaeda): "What difference does it make."

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[EVO X]

But in the case of the Liberian Ebola patient, a major medical error — the decision to send the sick man home instead of into isolation — is blamed directly on an EHR.bly has

I suspect what happened is the guy goes to the ER complaining. He either doesn't give them the full story or there is a language barrier involved. The guy has no insurance and his condition at the time didn't merit extensive testing or hospitalization so they let him go.

[Slyfox]

We're gonna reduce medical errors.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for posting this. Finally someone is identifying the elephant in the room. The entire electronic record keeping effort has been one huge failure foisted unto the medical profession.

This was predicted even before the idiots started to roll out the mandates.