“I wouldn’t bet that the ER workers know anything about Africa and what comes from there.”
You don’t think that ER doctors and nurses know anything about infectious diseases that are currently causing thousands of deaths in other countries?? Yes, they absolutely do.
And according to the news conference going on right now, the patient told a nurse where he had been, and she didn’t pass the information on to anyone else. Nice job, nurse.
Proves my point. The nurse knew nothing about Liberia and ebola. Doctors? Maybe. Nurses and techs? Probably not. I was in the hospital in the past 5 years and the nurses aren’t the brightest of the bright. There’s no telling what they’re like today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3209903/posts
Why not? Could it be because they didn’t think it was important because they’re not up to date? I doubt ebola is being discussed on America’s Got Talent. I don’t know ‘cause I don’t watch it.
The nurse misunderstood. Thought that he was a Libertarian, not from Liberia...
The nurse he told may have only been a non-medical administrative who logs in the admittance paperwork and who indeed may not have known doodly about Africa or Ebola.
Even the better hospitals have atrocious ER Admitting Staff.