I wonder if he knew what he was dealing with...I've taken care of a lot of patients with pneumonia and never gotten it, with normal precautions (gloves--no mask). By the way, that doctor is dead now, as I recall...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/883335/posts One was already ill. Professor Liu Jianlun, a 64-year-old specialist in respiratory medicine, had travelled by bus the previous day from the city of Guangzhou, in the neighbouring Chinese province of Guangdong, a three-hour journey. He had come to Hong Kong to attend a wedding – though later some doubt would be cast on his true intentions – but he quickly realised that he was not going to make it.........
......When Liu realised he was not fit to attend the wedding, instead of taking to his bed with a hot drink he went straight to the nearby Kwong Wah hospital, a pink and white concrete block five minutes' walk from the Metropole Hotel down Waterloo Road. Some now claim he had known all along that he was ill and that the story of the wedding was a cover to enable him to get to Hong Kong for treatment. Certainly, when he arrived at Kwong Wah he is said to have told medical staff: "Lock me up. Don't touch me. I have contracted a very virulent disease."
He was in a position to know. Liu had been caring for patients with the lethal disease at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital in Guangzhou for several months and he had seen what it could do. The most frightening aspect was the speed of its progression. Several viruses and bacteria can cause pneumonia, but in this case patients deteriorated suddenly, becoming breathless in a few days. Many needed intensive care and artificial ventilation to keep them alive.
Unfortunately, the doctors at Kwong Wah had never seen a patient with the illness before and did not know what the professor was talking about. Although the first recorded case was in Foshan, Guangdong province on 16 November last year, the Chinese authorities did not inform the World Health Organisation of the outbreak until mid-February, and WHO officials were still working to confirm it. Had they had earlier warning, the disease might have been contained in mainland China and the rest of the world spared.
(bits and pieces from the post)
Is this who you are talking about? I thought I read somewhere else he was an Nephrologist. Sorry for butting in...