Posted on 10/22/2014 12:06:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of the first Ebola victim to die in the United States says the hospital that cared for him has refused for weeks to release lab results showing the effects of an experimental drug treatment, fanning their suspicions that the facility mishandled the case.
They believe that information is being withheld, along with additional medical records, by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan died Oct. 8....
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Sorry, I’ve got no sympathy for the family of a guy who knowingly came to the U.S. after he knew he was exposed to the Ebola virus.
His family shouldn’t be given one red cent for alleged lapses in our taxpayer-funded medical care.
The ones that are illegal should be sent back to Liberia ASAP.
Doesn’t HIPAA law come into play here?
Medical records cannot just be released to anyone who asks for them. Even family members.
Seems like a lot of demands from a group who has likely not paid one red cent against the bill.
Obama utterly failed in his most basic responsibility, to keep America safe. He is the Chief Executive in charge. Ebola was a known threat. His policies allowed it to come to the US. Obama cannot hide behind congress, or behind some bureaucrat. Obama owns this abject failure. May his soul burn in hell.
And never will.
**she began asking about Duncan’s Ebola viral load shortly after he received the first dose of brincidofovir on Oct. 4.**
oh. so he did receive ‘experimental drugs’. Then why did his nephew claim he didn’t and we were all racists for not giving them? And is a relative entitled to any and all proprietary research data on an experimental drug other than pass or fail? Who does she plan to sell the info to? This is crazy.
in both articles linked below, the nephew declares that his uncle was denied experimental drugs. In the latter article, the nephew declares that the reason his uncle came to the USA “and he told them he had just returned from Liberia explicitly due to the Ebola threat..” This changed to being engaged, I guess?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215661/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216093/posts
The family of Thomas Eric Duncan are upset that their relative did not infect more racist Americans with his Ebola disease. I do notice that they haven’t paid a dime for his treatment, but they continue to badmouth everyone associated with his treatment. Duncan knew he was infected and deliberately traveled from Liberia to Dallas. He did not give one thought to all the people he put at risk for contracting this deadly disease.
So, should all the people damaged by Duncan be able sue? I mean his bill has to be pushing $100 million plus. Full cruise ships cancelled, planes grounded, the Dallas hospital is now practically empty... And that’s not counting all the other major disruptions he caused.
And the man wasn’t even a citizen of this country...
The family is already screaming “lawsuit!” Even if the sister was entitled to the records, the hospital would be foolish to release the records while under threat of litigation.
Duncan had to die anyway. Imagine the fallout back in West Africa if we treated him like Nurse Pham, who seems to be improving, by the way!
Have they paid the bill?
I think it’s great. They keep acting like ignorant buttwads, and it stays in the news and keeps angering voters.
Just exactly what Kliman doesn’t want to have happen.
We will probably never know (at least until the Ebola President is out of office) the untold millions it has cost to treat the patients that have been infected with Ebola and in the US. Dozens of specialized personnel, lengthy and cumbersome ‘protocols’, TONs of medical waste and the complications of disposal, and lost revenue for each of the hospitals that treat them.
Now imagine the cost of Obama’s idiotic musings on treating non-citizen, nonresident aliens who have Ebola here in this country. This is madness - insanity. We’ll have enough problems with all the unscreened illegal alien children bringing home-country diseases that were once considered extinct in the is country.
I find it very interesting that Duncan didn’t apply for a visa until after his sister visited him this last summer. He received it, then quit his job and is known to have voluntarily handled a 19 year old pregnant daughter of his landlord who was in the final death throes of ebola the day before he came to the US.
It might be the case he was infected when his sister visited, hatched a scheme to come to the US and claim medical malpractice to get rich quick.
Their family’s natural response should be to express grief and remorse for so many others being exposed by their familial indiscretion. Instead, they are accusatory. Casts doubt on their credibility.
Really?
Duncan tried to help a pregnant woman whom he thought had pregnancy complications, and whose family denied that she had Ebola. Given that no one knew she had Ebola until several people got sick at about the same time that Duncan did, how was Duncan supposed to know the woman actually had Ebola? No doubt, he began to suspect it when he started getting sick.
Perhaps the screening questionnaire should ask, "Have you been in close contact with a sick person?", not "Have you been in contact with someone with Ebola?"
They wouldn’t even know how to interpret those records but the first thing a lawyer would want them to do is get those records.
the pregnant woman died the next day. Duncan was a neighbor. The family told the village after the girl died that it was ebola. Duncan’s Liberian family have/had a coffee shop very close by that Duncan frequented. Duncan carried the pregnant woman to the taxi and drove with her and her mother to the ebola clinic, where they were told the center was full and so they returned home. To say Duncan didn’t know, is a huge stretch.
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