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I heard they stopped taking ER patients and closed that part of the hospital. Is this true? Have you heard this?
Oh, and thanks Hesky, I understand now.
I read that as well. The hospital has put the emergency room on "diversion," which means that ambulances are not currently bringing patients to the ER, though patients already admitted to the hospital are still being treated.
I hope I'm wrong, but I am starting to suspect that there are some aspects of political correctness that are overshadowing the authorities being able to take the necessary and immediate measures that may really need to be instituted.
I am stuck somewhere between wanting to protect my family and the urge to go out and start buying facemasks etc., and then remembing the rolls of duck tape and plastic tarp I bought once and didn't need...
I'd be seriously concerned if I was employee or someone who regularly comes into contact with employees of airlines working with international flights especially out of West Africa and medical personnel caring for Ebola infected patients.
This should not have been assigned to the local hospital to deal with. Duncan should have been flown to one of the hospitals in Omaha or Atlanta. It was pure hubris on the CDC's part to show that a local hospital could handle this disease, and it backfired on them. The healthcare workers and that hospital (which probably won't even exist in a few months) are going to suffer the most for it.
I am thinking you are right on about this. I'm a person who works at a psych hospital with the basic paper gowns, etc. and anyone we might see with infectious disease might well be psychotic/uncooperative. I am concerned for all of us who work in healthcare.
I'd be seriously concerned if I was employee or someone who regularly comes into contact with employees of airlines working with international flights especially out of West Africa and medical personnel caring for Ebola infected patients.
You have no idea who comes into regular contact with people who may be high risk. Here I sit in a city that has one of the whitest demographics in the nation and very few uneducated immigrants from anywhere. Last week, my son's high school friend stopped to visit one evening last week. It was great to see him after so many years. The next day my son tells me that his high school friend's coworker is from Liberia. You. Have. No. Way. of. Knowing. Not to instill fear. I'm not worried. But I think it's silly for people to target certain professions when just about anyone we meet could have contact with someone who has contact with a high risk person and never know it.
^^^^This.
My co-workers return from Nigeria regularly from vacation. They live in the west African communities in certain towns outside Boston (which includes many Liberians and visitors). Are people going to avoid me because I work in healthcare or work with west Africans? This kind of profiling won't help anybody, I think.
I'd be seriously concerned if I was employee or someone who regularly comes into contact with employees of airlines working with international flights especially out of West Africa and medical personnel caring for Ebola infected patients.
Yup. I've seen some nasty stuff working in medicine, but I never feel as filthy as I do coming home from an airport. As far as medical people working with Ebola, we have to learn that all body fluids,not just blood, are kryptonite.
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