The doctor’s office/hospital where she was diagnosed, the best I could tell; she called in tears after her visit.
Do they have the authority to officially quarantine patients? She ought to check with her local Dept of Health because I worked at a hospital for 17 years and at a Dr’s office for 2 and I don’t think they do, quite honestly. I think quarantine has to be done through the Dept. of Health. A Dr can offer suggestions about keeping other people away etc, but not legally order a quarantine on his own or order family members out of their own home. She REALLY needs to check on that. Don’t think a Dr has any legal standing on this one. What is he going to do, run daily checks at the home to see who is there? Yeah right, they don’t even do housecalls anymore.
Encourage her to call. While the swine flu needs to be taken seriously, it’s not ebola or the bubonic plague.