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.
Too bad this nurse wasn’t intelligent enough to do a couple of Google searches about how to protect herself.
This will not be the end of the story.
Follow the money.
This will not be the end of the story.
Follow the money.
Sucks to be the first one through the grinder.
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.”
Presumably the Dallas hospital is also affiliated with a medical school (just about every large hospital is).
The CDC is the guidelines that hospitals use in a case like Ebola. The guidelines were not adequate, period. The hospital is liable as their guidelines that were the CDC guidelines were not adequate but the nurse was their employee. Though morally innocent, the hospital is legally guilty.
The real problem is the CDC guidelines have become political as opposed to rational medical care and isolation and denial of entry from “Hot Zones.”
Thank you Obama, for this insanity.
This shows the Dem party media complex total control by the Dem's major donors namely Trial lawyers , the vermin of the world.
The US media is a complete joke and nothing more than carefully packages lies and spin.
If the hospital did so poor of work, why is that in Dallas there was only 1 death and the 2 that contracted the most dire consequences lived to tell about it? Come now tell us that the hospital did not do enough! Go away just go away. How ridiculous, she should be thanking God that she is alive yet today
Call it what you will - I know a number of nurses at several local hospitals and what they were telling me back then corroborates her claims - 99% of the Nation’s hospitals were unprepared and paying a potentially serious issue lip service with the intent to “react the best we can if it hits here”.