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Some U.S. hospitals weigh withholding care to Ebola patients
Reuters ^ | Wed Oct 22, 2014 | Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley

Posted on 10/25/2014 12:33:19 PM PDT by walford

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To: ClearCase_guy

As it was with Benghazi, the Obama Administration’s first thought about Ebola is how it would affect an upcoming election. It is primarily a political crisis to the narcissist-in-Chief.


21 posted on 10/25/2014 1:29:14 PM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
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To: C210N
to hear from a Doc suturing me up that his wife just returned from Liberia last week!!!!

And THAT is why we are in this mess. Hope you told him what for. The nerve of stupid people. I guess if you suddenly drop off the radar, we'll know what happened. Make sure you call the local news station with your story before the EMTs knock on your door.

22 posted on 10/25/2014 1:37:02 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ClearCase_guy

Look at the polls to weigh how the crisis would affect the next election
2) Go on TV and lie.

You nailed that.


23 posted on 10/25/2014 1:42:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why not? Wounded were brought into the White House during the Civil War.


24 posted on 10/25/2014 1:49:18 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Yaelle

Hope you’re OK! Sorry you have had some health issues.


25 posted on 10/25/2014 1:54:56 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: walford

Sounds just like OBASTARD CARE.


26 posted on 10/25/2014 1:59:19 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: LucyT; azishot

“Hospitals and personnel can’t give what they don’t have.”

They can’t say that because it contradicts the official narrative of the USSA gubmit.


27 posted on 10/25/2014 2:05:14 PM PDT by melancholy (No fair, no fair! Tree Huggers vs. Head Choppers)
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To: walford

My mother, who is an RN in a local hospital says the day an ebola pt is admitted is the day she QUITS!
The hospitals are NOT equipped to handle them and she will NOT expose herself and her family to this dreaded disease that Obama brought to America.


28 posted on 10/25/2014 2:15:05 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: walford

Why does this feel like a set up? What democrat operative gave this story idea to an editor somewhere? And for what purpose?


29 posted on 10/25/2014 2:38:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama would rather we die than offend West Africa. - freeper goldstategop (same for the CDC))
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To: walford

They must lose a ton of money on each Ebola patient they treat. Who is paying Thomas Duncan’s bill?


30 posted on 10/25/2014 2:46:49 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: grania
The thing is, if Ebola takes off in the US, do we really want every hospital and every medical professional at them exposed?

Read "The Hot Zone".

In a previous outbreak of Ebola in Africa, while attempting to treat infected patients the hospitals themselves became sources of infection.

Instead of stemming the spread of the virus they were spreading it.


31 posted on 10/25/2014 3:30:03 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Legacy of 'Obama The Divider': Racial Revenge)
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To: LucyT; melancholy
Hospitals and personnel can't give what they don't have.

They can’t say that because it contradicts the official narrative of the USSA gubmit.

You summed it up perfectly.

32 posted on 10/25/2014 3:48:53 PM PDT by azishot
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To: walford

Reuters - the last-gasp of Britain’s remnant fascist cult to keep alive Hitler’s Ministry of Propaganda.


33 posted on 10/25/2014 4:22:30 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: walford
It was ludicrous for Texas Presbyterian to have to intubate Patient Zero, aka Thomas Duncan.

He was not only intubated, but given dialysis treatment as his kidneys failed. Having to perform these invasive interventions placed his caregivers at even greater risk.

What's more, at the point these procedures were performed, it was probably already clear to doctors treating Duncan that his case was hopeless.

Yet doctors and hospital administrators likely believed they MUST perform the interventions -- or be accused of racism.

34 posted on 10/25/2014 4:25:03 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: walford

Just made an appointment this morning and this is what my confirmation now has on the bottom.

We at ********* take the real, but low, risk of Ebola transmission very seriously. Please answer the following questions for us immediately:

Have you been to Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, or Sierra Leone?

Have you been near persons or remains of persons with Ebola or health
care workers caring for an Ebola patient?

And are you having symptoms - fever 100.4 and any of the following: headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, bleeding? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please call or message us so we may help you.


They would probably freak if I actually informed them I do have some of the symptoms, but then again I often have them.

I have been asked at my doctors and when I went for my sleep study if I had been out of the country or in contact. The symptoms list is new.

The new appointment is hopefully just about my anemia but who knows what will be discovered this time.

Trying hard to stay out of the hospital.


35 posted on 10/25/2014 4:40:39 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 -- 6-22-02)
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To: walford

The EXEMPT Princes:
"As long as there are enough beds and vaccines for the EXEMPT, WHO CARES."

36 posted on 10/25/2014 6:59:37 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: walford

Maybe these hospitals should set up bio-quarantine facilities like they have at Emory, Nebraska, etc.

Oh, wait, they’re being taxed and regulated out the ass like the rest of us! They can’t afford it.

Never mind . . .


37 posted on 10/25/2014 7:13:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

... but that has always been the situation.


38 posted on 10/25/2014 7:17:49 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers
No, I disagree.

Although I don't necessarily agree with every action listed below, I do believe that decisive action and the willingness to take risks is the only way leadership ever succeeds:

The South talked about secession and fired on Ft Sumter -- Lincoln called up an army and invaded his own country. His goal was to force states to recognize the supremacy of the federal government.
Woodrow Wilson won re-election promising to keep us out of WWI. The Luisitania was sunk -- we were in Europe darn quick: army, marines, airplanes, navy. The Germans surrendered within the year.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. All talk of American Isolationism stopped immediately. We fought our way across the Pacific -- as well as Africa, Italy, France and Germany. In the end, we dropped two atomic bombs. Don't mess with Uncle Sam.
President Kennedy said we would go to the moon. In less than 10 years, we were standing on it.

Now, since Apollo ended, how has our Space Program been doing?
When was the last time we actually won a war?
Do we really have a clearly defined approach to handling Ebola, or are we treating it as a political problem to be managed within the confines of today's news cycle?

Something changed in America. We used to take the bull by the horns and DEAL with the situation. Today, the government is all about their pensions. They take no interest in anything else.

39 posted on 10/25/2014 7:43:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

We use to elect people that had accomplished something, even for local office. Most politicians had military experience, work and or business experience and that was considered a requirement by the voters. Now many politicians have never been anything but politicians.

It seems to me in the past we chose to be lead by people who wanted the best for this country and the citizens. Not sure how we choose people now, but what we end up with is people who do not care about anything but themselves. Most are only willing to stand up and actually do something if the polls of their voters require them to act. By the time the polls are done, it is too little too late.


40 posted on 10/25/2014 8:08:03 PM PDT by Tammy8
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