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Thomas Eric Duncan's nephew rips into Dallas hospital over Ebola treatment in newspaper op-ed
NY Daily News ^ | 10/15/2014 | MEREDITH ENGEL

Posted on 10/15/2014 4:06:52 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Josephus Weeks, nephew of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, said his uncle died a needless death.

"He was a man of color with no health insurance and no means to pay for treatment, so within hours he was released," Weeks wrote in a Tuesday op-ed for the Dallas Morning News.

Weeks ripped into Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital where his uncle died, saying the medical facility's "ignorance, incompetence and indecency has yet to be explained."

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To: PGR88

The amount is not as important as the principles. Just like RIAA sued the pants out of any mp3 pirates (eventhough the pirates could barely pay just a fraction), the ebola families need to be sued for causing havoc. The message it will send is: quarantine your infected kin, because even if you survive, you will be in the poorhouse for the rest of your pathetic lives.


81 posted on 10/15/2014 5:59:16 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Lurker

For the record, Mr. Weeks is a US Army veteran of the Iraq War.


82 posted on 10/15/2014 6:01:58 PM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: Kid Shelleen

He could afford an airline flight from west Africa but he couldn’t afford a health insurance policy????too bad.


83 posted on 10/15/2014 6:07:59 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: nascarnation
Until the markets puke up the fake money being used to pay the entitlements.

Then all hell will break loose.

Yup, I can't disagree with that. I have been thinking, since I was just a young Air Force troop in the 70s, that something was dreadfully wrong with the country. Since the information explosion, I see things a lot more clearly, and I am also convinced it will end with a lot of dead people. I know it's off topic, but that's what I think.

84 posted on 10/15/2014 6:10:02 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Feel free to load up all your nappy-headed kin and GTFO you worthless, ungrateful POS. Africa is waiting on you.


85 posted on 10/15/2014 6:10:33 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Mark17

Society held together fairly well during the 2009-2010 depression. Only because the govt was able to use 40% fake money to fund entitlements and make the economy appear better than it was.

This can’t continue indefinitely. However timing is everything and I’ve been wrong for a long time on the forecast.


86 posted on 10/15/2014 6:12:49 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Mark17

You are not alone.


87 posted on 10/15/2014 6:14:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I will say some of the uninsured that we treat (and they get exactly the same care as the insured) are some of the most demanding, complaining, ungrateful jerks you will ever meet. Their entitlement and chip on their shoulder is so large they are in danger of not fitting through the door. Never so much as a thank you, just the next demand we can meet for them....


88 posted on 10/15/2014 6:18:36 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: nascarnation; combat_boots
This can’t continue indefinitely. However timing is everything and I’ve been wrong for a long time on the forecast.

Roger that. Me too. I have been expecting it for 40 years. One of the reasons I stayed in the Air Force, was because I thought, if we were going to have a civil war, that would be about the safest place to be.

89 posted on 10/15/2014 6:34:43 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: Domandred

Before I had my health insurance, I had gall bladder disease. I would have horrible attacks, for which the hospital would give me a prescription and not much else. I wanted surgery to get the gall bladder removed, but each time, I would just get the prescription and the boot. 24 hours after my insurance kicked in, I had another attack and it was finally bad enough to get surgery. Never had another problem with it.


90 posted on 10/15/2014 6:52:27 PM PDT by christx30 (Freedom above all.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Other articles indicate otherwise - that the woman’s family (and Duncan) thought it was a miscarriage, and/or thought she had malaria.


91 posted on 10/15/2014 7:13:27 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Blue Highway; All
Here is a brief sequence of reports which reveal Duncan's journey...
92 posted on 10/15/2014 7:20:59 PM PDT by wtd
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Link?


93 posted on 10/15/2014 9:38:21 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Marie

Marie, I spent some time today reading more about T. E. Duncan and the Ebola contacts he had. Here are some highlights.

The neighborhood he lived in was ravaged by Ebola. So many people had died of it that no one would touch or tend to even the very young orphans, for fear of contamination.

Question: did Duncan mention during any of his screening interviews that he lived in a very concentrated Ebola hotspot?

According to on-the-ground reporting of the incident, Duncan and the brother of the pregnant woman, & whoever was helping them, were specifically trying to get her admitted to the Ebola ward of the hospital. Not the pregnancy ward, the Ebola ward. They were turned away because the Ebola ward was full.

Question: Did Duncan mention to anyone, in Liberia, Brussels or the USA, that he had been party to a group, in a taxi, that tried to get a pregnant woman committed to the *Ebola Ward* of the area hospital?

It has been reported that the pregnant woman’s brother, Sonny Boy, died of Ebola before Duncan left the same apartment where Sonny Boy lived. [There are dated, online photos of SB’s dead body, btw.]

Question: Did Duncan mention that he lived in close proximity to a young man who died of Ebola?

Lastly, Liberia had announced plans to prosecute Duncan for lying on his Ebola questionnaire.

Question: who is in a better position to know whether Duncan lied about his Ebola contacts: someone here in the US, or the Liberian authorities who shared a much closer physical proximity to Duncan at the time of his Ebola exposure?

It does appear that after the facts were reported, Duncan back-peddled on whether he knew he’d had contact with a person or persons infected with Ebola. The question is, do you believe the sourced reports that clearly indicate that Duncan both came into very close contact with, and KNEW he came into close contact with, the Ebola virus, or do you believe his subsequent denial? A related question, did he have any reason to deny that he knowingly exposed many, many people to Ebola?

The evidence is compelling. Duncan had much more contact with Ebola than he admitted to. If, for example, *all* he had added to his initial hospital interview was that people in the immediate Monrovian neighborhood in which he lived were dropping like flies of Ebola, he’d have gotten far more attention from the nurses, and almost certainly from the drs also. So even if one grants your insistence that he had no earthly idea the pregnant woman & her brother died of Ebola [despite the fact that their entire neighborhood was devastated by Ebola], he still withheld vital info. Info that likely, sad to say, cost him his life.


94 posted on 10/16/2014 9:31:12 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

I just watched an interview with the neighbors of Duncan. The pregnant woman wasn’t confirmed with Ebola until after he left. The first person to get sick in his neighborhood became ill at the same time that Duncan did and by that time, Duncan was already in the states.

While the reporter was there, an official was making the rounds through the neighborhood trying to get a list of possible contacts. It was after the first man died that people started dropping like flies. By that time, Duncan was already confirmed and in the hospital.

The reporter *specifically* asked if Duncan knew that the pregnant woman had Ebola. The answer was a definitive “No. No one did.”

The vast majority of the articles are speculation written as fact. (Like the rumor that he fled the country to get medical care in the US after being exposed, when he’d been planning this trip for months.)

The fact is that it makes no sense for him to knowingly infect his family.

There are so many rumors that are being taken as gospel truth. People want to blame.

Fine. Then we need to blame the freaking CDC and the Obama administration. They’re the ones who’ve dropped the ball and, in all ways, caused this mess. They are responsible for all of this - including the two sick nurses. And they need to be held accountable. Their ‘don’t panic’ attitude has downplayed the danger to the point where an exposed nurse was free to travel. They should’ve transferred Duncan to Atlanta ASAP, instead they let an ill-equipped, untrained staff deal with it.


95 posted on 10/16/2014 10:21:23 AM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Marie

“The reporter *specifically* asked if Duncan knew that the pregnant woman had Ebola. The answer was a definitive “No. No one did.””

Malaria is very common in Liberia and reports that I’ve seen say that malaria is what the pregnant woman’s family thought she was suffering from when they carried her to the hospital.


96 posted on 10/16/2014 10:29:09 AM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: Marie

You and I totally disagree on this issue. I believe a lot of whitewashing has been happening since the original facts came out. You believe otherwise. We’ll have to leave it at that.


97 posted on 10/16/2014 10:30:51 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Marie

No, nothing has been confirmed from any hearsay conversation with the duncan family here. Most especially after the *nephew” had his meeting with Jesse Jackson. The news from Liberia and President Sirleaf’s comments that came on the heels of the first Id of Duncan have a much greater probability of being factual about the ebola spread in his family.

Seek out the Liberian web sites for their cooments on this fool and fraud.

His clan has gotten a whiff of money and old Jesse told them how to get it.

They already snagged better housing and probably have been talking to hospital legal reps.


98 posted on 10/16/2014 10:44:22 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), hospitals are not obligated to treat uninsured patients under all situations:
EMTALA imposes 3 distinct legal duties on hospitals. According to the statute, only facilities that participate in Medicare are included, but this encompasses almost 98% of all US hospitals. First, hospitals must perform a medical screening examination (MSE) on any person who comes to the hospital and requests care to determine whether an emergency medical condition (EMC) exists. Second, if an EMC exists, hospital staff must either stabilize that condition to the extent of their ability or transfer the patient to another hospital with the appropriate capabilities. Finally, hospitals with specialized capabilities or facilities (e.g., burn units) are required to accept transfers of patients in need of such specialized services if they have the capacity to treat them.
If the hospital determines that no "emergency medical condition" existed, they can toss you out if they choose. I think on the first visit, they were not aware that he definitely had Ebola.
99 posted on 10/16/2014 10:57:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Fantasywriter

I’ll bet that we can agree that this case proves that our security is lax and that our current efforts will do nothing to protect us from the spread of disease. A person can lie or simply not know and wander right in carrying a Level 4 haphazard.

I’ll bet that we can agree that this administration is displaying criminal negligence with this situation. (And EV-D68) And that the CDC director is an incompetent boob who should be fired immediately.

And I’ll also bet that we agree that it is very clear that we are, in no way, prepared to deal with this.


100 posted on 10/16/2014 11:29:37 AM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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