Posted on 10/14/2014 9:15:46 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on further allegations made by a nurses union that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was not put into isolation, allowed his blood to circulate through the hospital’s tube system, and that waste “piled up nearly to the ceiling” inside patient’s rooms on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”
Gupta said that the National Nurses United stated that they were informed by nurses that “Mr. Duncan was not in isolation. He was not in isolation for several hours, despite the fact that a nursing supervisor asked that he go into isolation, and that he may have come in contact with seven patients at that time.”
The also claimed, “the blood, the laboratory blood that was taken from Mr. Duncan was sent through the hospital tube system…and the concern is that tube system could potentially become contaminated as a result of the fact that this blood with Ebola was circulating through it.”
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ObamaCare will cover us!
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Why did the hospital not follow CDC guidelines?
I simply can't trust my health to a nurse or even a janitor in a union. I know I'm right. Almost 40 years ago, I busted a union in Western Pennsylvania. When the deadwood (some with 35+ years of seniority) was shed, profits improved and we who remained did better.
Every doctor I’ve ever known gives this advice:
Check out of the hospital ASAP because the hospital is where people get sick.
Designating special facilities for Ebola patients seems to be the right way to go.
Maybe the ebola waste didn’t have a incineration procedure... somebody told the head nurse don’t let contaminated bedding, needles, IV bags, catheter, etc into the ‘regular’ carts to be taken to the incinerator.
what waste ??
LOL! I just changed my tagline.
Notice that the hospital director didn’t actually deny a single allegation by the nurses!
“Quite a few nurses’ unions have telegraphed their intention to bail out, if Ebola spreads here.”
Understand how this is all going to fall out if it gets bad here, folks.
Using what has happened in Africa as precedence, most of the Secular Health Care staff aren’t going to endanger themselves and their families, and will run for the hills. It’s a JOB, not a suicidal cause.
The reason we are sending so many to Liberia is because they only have left than 50 doctors left, in the entire country. All of the others have run for their lives.
In America, just as in Africa, it will be mostly CHRISTIANS who stay behind, and take the most risk to care for the afflicted.
You know, those EVIL, VILE, HATEFUL, Christian Folk who just refuse to accept gay sex and marriage, pedophelia, and baby-murdering as normal.
Sort of like the corner of my college dorm room with the dirty clothes hamper. (Not sure on the relative toxicity).
Bring them back home.
Forget CDC
They can use the Firestone protocols
For the average American hospital this is uncharted territory.
Hard lessons
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
I would not be surprised if the next person to become infected will be someone who was picking up waste and cleaning the room. In other words, the lowest paid of the bunch. I also would not be surprised if we find out there are a lot more already infected.
That makes sense. Then all the clean ups have to be rescheduled, the incinerator must be maintained daily, vs monthly. All nurses must be newly trained and more fully supplied. It’s taking quite a while for us Americans to take this disease seriously. One need not be paranoid to be sufficiently cautious.
I fear it’s going to take four score or more Americans going through the full destructive devastation before more take it seriously.
It will have to be Facebooked, Tweeted, Skyped, Instagramed, Digitally photographed, and talked about ad nausem on MSNBC.
Chris Matthews will have to be demanding that we stop incoming Liberian Flights.
Wow, that thread has reached 3,999 posts.
Is there an Ebola survival thread here, too, with information on what to do in case of a pandemic?
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