Posted on 03/01/2015 1:52:31 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
The first person infected with Ebola in the United States, nurse Nina Pham, said she was used for publicity purposes by her hospital, which also invaded her privacy and did not properly train her, the Dallas Morning News reported on Sunday.
Pham, 26, told the newspaper that chaos hit the Dallas hospital when it admitted Thomas Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States after he contracted it in Liberia. Nurses were ill prepared and received little guidance on how to treat Ebola or protect themselves.
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No, Nina. Your government failed you by allowing an illegal alien infected with a deadly disease to get a visa and come to the United States and infect innocent Americans.
You got the best medical treatment because the government could not afford to have an American citizen die because of its willful endangerment to the public.
I expected this rhetoric from the black nurse. Yes, I said it. I just can’t stomach people’s bellyaching about everything and anything.
Sorry, but I’ve seen the original recommendations provided by CDC for dealing with Ebola patients. Following their PPE recommendations would almost guarantee contracting the disease. Among other interesting things, it recommended taking off globes first and then removing the rest of your equipment with bare hands!
What they posted was a generic recommendation for how to wear PPE. Inexcusable negligence.
BTW, the nurse may have gotten the best possible care, but she became sick because of the negligence of the hospital. Heck, they could have called me and I’d have suggested better protocols than what they told these women to do!
Though it’s not like the nurses were kept isolated and unable to look up proper procedures for protecting themselves.
She should be suing the gubmint. The patient should never have been allowed into he country.
The government and the 'best possible scientists' threw her a huge curve ball. Our government gave a lying immigrant a visa and those CDC scientists issues grossly incorrect procedures for handling ebola patients.
This poor girl has severe liver damage and probably other damage as well from that illness. She'll never be the same and will probably end up needing a liver transplant.
I wish someone would. They've let people in the US legally from areas that had the Ebola epidemic. Then there's the ones who are here illegally. Then they brought home patients with the disease. The whole country was a lab experiment for Obama's political and social agenda.
And meanwhile we get talked down to by big brother to bully us to go get vaccines to protect us from diseases spread by invaders and because many infants are in institutionalized day care.
Maybe lawsuits against those carrying out these policies is the only way to stop the madness.
Too bad this nurse wasn’t intelligent enough to do a couple of Google searches about how to protect herself.
If he got a visa, which he did, then he was by defintion not an illegal alien. The visa structure and process is crazy. There are too many visa categories.
Applicants are either desireable or undesireable. That should be the first criteria.
Desireable applicants could then receive either a permanent or temporary visa. But we have a couple dozen different types of temporary visa and a couple dozen different types of permanent visas. That just encourages everyone to game the system.
yesssss!!!
Who was an illegal alien?
Too bad this nurse wasn’t intelligent enough to do a couple of Google searches about how to protect herself.
I would have quit and walked out, smells like the Obamanites wanted someone to get sick and push the headlines.
I think this is a result of an instinctive need to absolve the gov;t of any and all blame because so many Americans have been conditioned to think of gov’t as totally awesome and as their real savior. And so because it does not cross their mind to blame gov;t they blame the next available thing. In this case, it was the hospital.
Not to excuse this nurse’s ingratitude at all though. She definitely should have figured out that if she was gonna look to someone to be held accountable, the hospital workers and doctors who did their jobs diligently and saved her freaking life was not exactly the best place to start.
This will not be the end of the story.
Follow the money.
This will not be the end of the story.
Follow the money.
The hospital wasn't the one at fault. This whole thing lies on hussein's doorstep for allowing every diseased ridden Anti-American turd world wonder into our country. The CDC still has no clue what they're doing. My tagline was from the CDC website and they're still clueless. Even so, if she'd bothered to go online for just one evening, she'd have known the protocol wasn't up to snuff and could have saved herself from the entire ordeal. To think of all the prayers and heartfelt wishes for her quick recovery has been slapped back at us. No, Nina, no more sympathy from here and you can kiss that nursing certificate good-bye because there isn't a hospital in the country that would risk hiring you now.
Sucks to be the first one through the grinder.
Residents of Liberia need a travel visa to come to the US. Since I do not believe anything that the government or MSM says, I have no confirmation that Duncan had a valid travel visa. We were told by the MSM that he intended to come to the US to start a life. That would violate the conditions of a travel visa. He would then be an illegal alien since he clearly had to intention of going back to Liberia.
There was a time that the US would not allow people with contagious conditions to enter the US. This was to protect the general public. Those days are over. The current invasion from the southern border is proof positive of this.
We need to look at what is happening to our health care system. Each event in a hospital, doctor’s office or pharmacy is a “billable event”.
Government agencies like CMS define what is a billable event for Medicare, Medicaid and CHIPS. They aren’t the same. Insurance companies then start with the CMS criteria in defining what is a “billable event” for each health plan and provider.
They all have agreements with providers. So under the same “plan”, what is a billable event at one provider may not be a billable event at another provider.
The payment level is marginal ... and for medicaid flat out impossible. So the medical providers assign each “billable event” to be conducted by the lowest paid person possible.
So the minimum wage, unskilled, usually uneducated intake person at the front end has the patient fill out a form of personal medical history. The form is not designed for the reality experienced by patients. The form is designed for the reality of the government CMS.
The lowest paid, least skilled medical provider employee might also ask the patient questions and help fill out the form. Some of the questions on the form are logical impossibilities. So even the educated have problems completing the form.
The form is then filed and never looked at again. It is not a billable event for any subsequent nurse or doctor or lab technician to look at the form.
In December in the emergency room I filled out the form and listed drugs to which I’m allergic. Not a single subsequent employee knew of those allergies. Upon admission as inpatient, I had to fill out a similar form again with my medical history. That paper also was never again looked at.
On the other hand, entire groups within the hospital seemed to make it their mission to have “creative” diagnosis and “creative” treatment that would create additional billable events.
Many hospitals in poor areas are going bankrupt, especially with the expansion of Medicaid, which, as predicted is creating more unintended consequences than it is solving. The medical provider that can get creative and create a large number of billable events has a better chance to survive than a medical provider who is conscientious and does not want to “over treat” or “over medicate” the patient.
So the medical providers are incentivized to game the system.
And, of course, the patients are incentivized to game the system. Expanding medicaid has not increased preventive care, as intended. Expanding medicaid has increased Emergency room visits for non-emergency situations.
As one doctor told me last week in a long discussion of the problems of the system: “Doctors no longer over-treat due to fear of ambulance chasing lawyers. Over-Treatment is now institutionalized in the practice of medicine and taught in the medical schools.”
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