Posted on 10/29/2014 7:41:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Kent Brantly is the Samaritan’s Purse doctor who was transported to Emory hospital in early August 2014 after contracting Ebola in Liberia. He recently told Greta Van Susteren that he contracted the virus from evaluating patients in the emergency room, outside the isolation unit where they treat Ebola patients.
His comments have received little to no attention:
I am convinced I didn't contract Ebola inside the isolation unit. I was still also evaluating patients. In Liberia. I was taking care of patients in the isolation unit, the Ebola treatment unit, but I was also evaluating patients in the emergency room and I had contact with a lot of patients without all the protective gear who later were confirmed to have Ebola. And I'm very confident that I contracted Ebola from one of those patients in the emergency room. [Emphasis added.]
While nothing is 100% perfect, this confirms that health care workers can treat patients with minimal risk as long as official protocols are meticulously followed, but face a very high risk of infection if they don’t adhere to protocols and are subsequently exposed to infected bodily fluids or droplets that worm their way into one’s mucous membrane. Tell us something we don’t know.
Yet the seemingly intelligent, thoughtful doctor treated people in the emergency room without any PPE (personal protection equipment). It had to be a known risk that some of the patients he’d be treating outside the isolation unit might end up inside if diagnosed with Ebola. Why would he do this? Weren’t there enough hazmat suits for both inside and outside the isolation unit? Was the equipment for use only in the isolation unit? That’s hard to believe.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ah yes, this from the doctor who lied about his travel after he returned to the US and only admitted what he had done when confronted by the police.
Could you tell me where you found that?
RE: Ah yes, this from the doctor who lied about his travel after he returned to the US and only admitted what he had done when confronted by the police.
I think you’re confusing Dr. Craig Spencer with Dr. Kent Brantley.
Wrong, Brantley was the first guy that was brought back from Africa in the isolation plane.
By all accounts a decent fellow.
The NY guy, a self absorbed ass.
You are correct. Sorry, wrong doctor.
It would be easier if this epidemic came with a program.
The first group of doctors were Christian missionaries and pretty decent people.
The recent batch of self centered POS like the isolation nurse and the bowling ball doctor who ignored quarantine were Left Wing versions of Doctors Without Borders types and are total jerks
“Yet the seemingly intelligent, thoughtful doctor treated people in the emergency room without any PPE (personal protection equipment). It had to be a known risk that some of the patients he’d be treating outside the isolation unit might end up inside if diagnosed with Ebola. Why would he do this? Weren’t there enough hazmat suits for both inside and outside the isolation unit? Was the equipment for use only in the isolation unit? That’s hard to believe.”
So that means more healthcare workers need to be protected, not just the ones caring for Ebola patients. Everyone in the emergency rooms may be in jeopardy, even if the patients symptoms are not so bad that they are automatically isolated.
Agree. Another thing I noticed is that the last two, the selfish doctor and nurse don't seem to have been in West Africa more than a month. It's like they want a check-mark on their resume that they are “caring people”. Doctors without Borders is supposedly a nine month to a year commitment, but according to what both said they were not over there more than a month. Especially the nurse is suspicious, since she worked for CDC and Doctors without Borders. I bet she wasn't even working with Ebola patients, but was an admin plant sent by CDC to further expand their agenda that quarantine is not necessary.
Hmmm....author seems to have clipped Branley’s quote to alter the sense of it.
On one of the previous Ebola posts the full quotes of Brantley and Writebok are available.
Both pondered long and hard on just how they could have contracted Ebola and both, after voicing some possibilities, admitted the just didn’t know.
If these cases proliferate people will avoid the hospitals at all costs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220887/posts
Ebola Docs and Nurses Care About Africans, Don’t Care About Americans
FrontPage Mag ^ | 10/29/2014 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 10/29/2014, 8:58:29 AM by SeekAndFind
We’re told ad nauseam that the medical personnel who go to Africa are heroes. And that’s fine. I have no objection to them doing their humanitarian thing and then writing a bestselling book about it.
But now that Madam Ebola is in town, it’s hard to miss the fact that these people might care about Africans, but they certainly don’t care about Americans.
The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.
Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.
“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.
Spencer finally ’fessed up when a cop “got on the phone and had to relay questions to him through the Health Department,” a source said.
So he lied. He couldn’t be trusted to self-quarantine which means none of them can be. Meanwhile Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox is continuing her public tantrum and extinguishing whatever media manufactured sympathy the public had for her.
Defiant nurse Kaci Hickox vowed to break a mandatory quarantine order that would keep her inside her Maine home for much of the next three weeks.
Hickox said more appropriate measures would include self-monitoring by taking her temperature twice a day and getting medical attention if she began to show symptoms of Ebola.
“I would go back,” said Hickox. “This has been a bit of a nightmare for me but my work in Sierra Leone for four weeks was amazing and I feel privileged to have been able to help fight this battle. I do plan on going back in fact, it’s not just ‘will I,’ it’s more of a when.”
There’s a stench of egomania to Hickox’s language. She’s willing to compromise the public safety of Americans so she can have her fun while she’s stateside and then go back to Africa to feel “privileged”. For her being told to stay at home is a nightmare, but not the risk of creating an epidemic in this country.
Spencer has already proven that these people cannot be trusted.
There’s no reason to trust Kaci Hickox after her obnoxious and thoughtless attitude.
You can find it on Wikipedia under Dr Schnabel it reroutes to a discussion on drs during the plague
“I would go back,” said Hickox.
Well......bye
According to her own LinkedIn, Hickox supposedly worked for Doctors Without Borders for a year. But it appears that Sierra Leone, where she only worked for one month, is not the only country in which she worked.
When Kaci Hickox originally applied to join Doctors Without Borders, they wouldn't take her. She applied to work with the CDC. It was only later that she managed to worm her way into Doctors Without Borders. The nurse currently quarantined in New Jersey is an employee for the Centers for Disease Control and a registered Democrat with a history of left-wing advocacy, Gotnews.com has learned. Kaci Hickox’s ties to the CDC were not disclosed in a controversial anti-quarantine column she wrote for the Dallas Morning News. The CDC opposes quarantines or travel bans from Ebola infected countries.
Initially turned down for Doctors Without Borders, Hickox applied for a position with the Centers for Disease Control’s infectious disease unit. She received that position and began a two-year fellowship in Las Vegas, NV where she currently still works.
Hickox’s travels as a nurse took her to Myanmar, Cambodia, and Nigeria and convinced her of the importance of quarantines and “health surveillance,” according to the University of Texas-Arlington newsmagazine. “I realize that we need to find better ways to improve health surveillance and outbreak response in settings with poor resources,” Hickox said. “My training in the EIS with the CDC will allow me to learn the gold standard of this kind of work.”
But Hickox, who is a registered Democrat in Nevada, is ignoring health surveillance as she pushes back against a mandatory quarantine for persons working with ebola in West Africa.
Doctors Without Borders — where Hickox worked for a year, according to her LinkedIn– has already had nine deaths from Ebola and more than sixteen infections but Hickox is complaining about being detained under a mandatory 21-day quarantine.....
http://gotnews.com/ebola-nurse-complaining-quarantine-left-wing-democrat-cdc-employee/
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Used a *bing* search; IIRC, keywords :**Funny black plague**
http://middleagestoday.com/assets/styles/large/public/files/news/reenactment%20news%20plague.jpg
The beak doctor costume has a fascinating origin:
http://www.doctorsreview.com/history/doctors-black-death/
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