Posted on 11/12/2014 11:10:29 AM PST by bgill
The hospital that treated the only Ebola patient to die in the United States will pay his relatives an undisclosed sum and create a charitable foundation in his name, the family's attorney said Wednesday. The agreement heads off a lawsuit from relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Attorney Les Weisbrod declined to say at a news conference how much money the family would receive but said the settlement was a "very good deal" that would provide for Duncan's parents and his four children. Weisbrod also said Presbyterian hospital was not charging Duncan's family for his medical treatment. The foundation will assist efforts to fight Ebola in Liberia, he said.
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For what they put Dallas through, they need to be paying us.
SICKENING!
I don’t know, but the family should compensate the hospital. After all, that was our nation’s first case of ‘spontaneous ebola’. And the hospital already took a heavy financial hit.
In a sane world, Obama would be impeached and the hospital would be suing HIM.
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