Posted on 10/04/2014 2:34:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DALLAS—Health officials' handling of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States continued to raise questions Friday, after the hospital that is treating the patient and that mistakenly sent him home when he first came to its emergency room acknowledged that both the nurses and the doctors in that initial visit had access to the fact that he had arrived from Liberia.
For reasons that remain unclear, nurses and doctors failed to act on that information, and released the patient under the erroneous belief that he had a low-grade fever from a viral infection, allowing him to put others at risk of contracting Ebola. Those exposed included several schoolchildren, and the exposure has the potential to spread a disease in Dallas that has already killed more than 3,000 people in Africa....
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I think they were hoping he’d go to another hospital. Its probably that simple.
“for reasons that remain unclear” The Reason: They told him to go home because he probably just had a cold. They were too dense to hear “I JUST FLEW IN FROM FREAKING LIBERIA!”.
CDC spokes dude “This disease is very difficult to spread. Do not worry. We know what we’re doing. Blah, blah,blah.”
Maybe the doctor was Pakistani and couldn’t understand English very well.
Would not surprise me.
That was so 2 days ago.....
And then they gave him an antibiotic, which don’t work on viruses. What kind of dummies are employed at that hospital?
Perhaps the employees don’t keep up with news...
For O’Bola that was 2 whole days of awesome golfing ago.
They are still making up stories. They say they erroneously thought he had a low grade fever from a viral infection now. But they sent him home with antibiotics. So they didn’t think that at all.
Of course the doctor "should" have asked the patient himself. But if the doctor practiced the kind of medicine that might have been expected just a few years ago, and asked the same questions that the nurse did, it would mean higher costs and lower revenues for the hospital.
(Electronic medical records are another aspect of Obamacare that might well kill us.)
Exactly.
Someone is lying.
When is the gov't shut the borders and protect Americans from this plague?
What it is going to take before some people say enough's enough.
I can only think of legal action.
I don't expect anything useful from B. Hussein O.'s flapping mouth.
It’s scary because my mom’s dictor is at that hospital. If she needs to go to an ER it would be that ER. Ugh!
The electronic record fiasco reminds me of the theme in the movie The Verdict.
Dude...
Or...
What difference does it make?
No, no! You've got to talk like an Obama spokesperson...
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