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Ebola-Infected NYC Doctor Strums Guitar to Pass Time in Isolation
7Online (ABC News) ^ | Wednesday, November 05, 2014 05:01PM | GILLIAN MOHNEY

Posted on 11/05/2014 5:55:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise

A New York doctor being treated for Ebola has found another way to pass the time in a hospital isolation ward: He's playing his guitar, city health officials say.

Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, has been in isolation at Bellevue Hospital since being diagnosed with Ebola last month. He's now listed in stable condition, and city officials said he continues to improve....

The New York-based emergency room doctor had been treating Ebola patients at a Doctors Without Borders medical center in Guinea when he was infected. He arrived back in the United States on Oct. 17 and was diagnosed with Ebola and isolated on Oct. 23.

New York City is monitoring 357 people for possible Ebola, the vast majority of whom are travelers who arrived in the city within the last 21 days...

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolainamerica; ebolasongs; newyorkebola
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To: franzpick

Even after symptoms abate, the virus is still present. Those days between, before contagion is past, stretch long and have to be filled with something. Playing a guitar is good.


21 posted on 11/06/2014 6:42:19 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: a fool in paradise
The article leaves out the most important part: what make and model of guitar has he been playing?

And they call themselves journalists.

22 posted on 11/06/2014 10:38:21 AM PST by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
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To: Scoutmaster

He can tune a guitar but can he tuna fish?


23 posted on 11/06/2014 2:30:47 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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