ER Doctor: What Scares Me Even More Than Ebola

linkedin.com ^ | October 25, 2014 | Louis M. Profeta MD

[Gadsden1st]

I’ve been walking the earth for a half a century, so I’m sure I’ve picked up a bit along the way. I know the Gettysburg Address by heart. I can recite all the presidents. I can taste the difference between Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, and I’m fairly certain I can tell you the starting lineup from the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. But if you ask me if I’m worried about Ebola, if our hospital is ready or if our nurses and staff are up to the challenge, chances are you will probably hear me say this:

“Hell if I know.”

[Rodamala]

the last place you want to be if a bad contagious disease outvreak occurs is a hospital.

Fixed it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It would be a far better use of our tax money than 47 million on food stamps. The EBTs will riot anyway if Ebola takes root. Better to divert a few billion now to serious preparedness than continue whistling past the graveyard.

This could be an existential threat like external enemies, so a legitimate use of fed gov and tax money.

[bert]

-——Hell if I know——

The man doesn’t know how to cuss. The corrrect expression is “Damn if I know.”

Then there is this..... the money sentence.

——I also am keenly aware that not a damn thing I do will have any real impact on the survivability of a patient with either the Spanish flu or Ebola-—

He is cussing correctly by providing emphasis to his thought. He has stated in plain language, emphasized with the expletive damn, that there is no treatment that will cure the disease. Down there in Texas they pretended to apply curatives knowing there would be no real chance of survival.

If there are real death panels that are in the Obamacare law, they were over looked or pushed aside in Dallas. Obamacare failed at the moment of greatest need.

[bert]

Vitamin D3 in large doses will protect you

[Senator_Blutarski]

Bump for later

[GOPJ]

“Is the staff versed in transmission and spread of Ebola?”

“Darn tooten.”

“Has everyone read all the CDC and hospital communiqués regarding Ebola?”

“Sure have.”

“Have you practiced the drills in the ER in case we have someone show up with a possible exposure?”

“More times than Lois Lerner has hit her hard drive with a hammer.”

But if they were to ask me if there are any other issues they should be aware of, I’ll just stare with round blank eyes and keep my mouth shut until the right question is asked; the question they will pretend does not exist.

“Dr. Profeta, will they – the staff, you, your partners – show up? “

“That, I don’t know.”

If we go pandemic - those with Ebola - those with the disease will being transported to government 'death' centers - some FEMA/Homland camp.

This death meme keeps coming up - even before the problem exists... It's not how reporters generally think... the meme's outside of them... feels heavy with intent.

[Ellendra]

Here’s one of the elderberry studies:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056848/

Still looking to see if any test show it works against ebola. One of my books mentions that it does, but I want coroborating research.

Hey Nully, I know this link is from 2011, but should I post it as it’s own thread so more people on the BOYD list can see it?

[Ellendra]

There are 23 level 4 beds in the country,

I kind of mentioned this on another thread, but it seems to me it would be easier to build "isolation campers" than it would be to upgrade a hospital to have more level 4 beds. A camper can be built so even the wastes are kept isolated, and there could be special ports so nurses could check IVs and such without actually stepping inside. And after it's done being used, the whole thing could be towed to an incinerator.

There would have to be a lot more details worked out, but that's the basics of my idea.

[Gadsden1st]

Need another favor. Could you give me your recommendation for a couple of Herbal books which would give the detail instructions for preparing suryps, salves, and teas?

[Ellendra]

“Herbal Antivirals” by Stephen Buhner is the one I’m working through now. He also wrote another book called “Herbal Antibiotics”, which is in my reading pile.
(That’s a big pile!)

“The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook” by James Green is great for the how-to part, but it’s a little light on the which-herb-is-good-for-what part.

Pubmed is my go-to website for clinical and laboratory research. It sometimes requires a medical dictionary, but it helps sort the medicines from the snake oil.

There are a ton more on my reading list that I haven’t gotten to yet, but those are the best of the ones that I have read.

[cycjec]

another stellar quote:

a hypothetical colloquy; Dr. P has just assured his
questioner that his staff is very well trained.

Q: Will your staff show up?

A: That, I don’t know

[cycjec]

never thought of looking at the book reviews. when I
have a chance, I will

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!