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I realize you will go to the ends of the earth to defend the incompetence of the Dallas hospital, but the Symptoms + West Africa = Ebola risk equation was true BEFORE Duncan arrived and REGARDLESS of what he answered on some idiotic questionnaire.
Would you agree that:
- the CDC does not run the Dallas hospital
- the CDC does not staff the Dallas hospital
- the CDC is not responsible for the actions of the Dallas hospital
Since you obviously still do not understand what I'm driving at, I'll attempt, one last time, to clarify it.
1. Guy from West Africa walks into emergency room with symptoms that could be Ebola.
2. ???
3. Guy is sent home.
If you know exactly what happened at step 2, please enlighten us. No one but a few people at that hospital know exactly what happened.
If they do not inform us, and all healthcare professionals across the country, there is a chance it could happen again.
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We do know what happened at #2, the hospital released it:
1. Does the patient present with symptoms that indicate potential communicable disease?
•Mr. Duncan presented with a temperature of 100.1F, abdominal pain for two days, a sharp headache, and decreased urination. These symptoms could be associated with many communicable diseases, as well as many other types of illness. When he was asked whether he had nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea, he said no. Additionally, Mr. Duncan’s symptoms were not severe at the time he first visited the hospital emergency department.
2. Has the patient been around anyone who has been ill?
•When Mr. Duncan was asked if he had been around anyone who had been ill, he said that he had not.
3. Has the patient traveled outside the United States in the last four weeks?
•Mr. Duncan was asked if he had traveled outside the United States in the last four weeks, and he said that he had been in Africa. The nurse entered that information in the nursing workflow of the electronic health record.
The patient was not that ill. Physician failed when factoring in Africa.
"The patient claims to have had contact with the Dallas 'patient zero,'" according to a statement from Dana Baird-Hanks, a spokeswoman with the city of Frisco.
Amazing, isn't it? Free health care over more than a week (that we American taxpayers have to pay for), and this is what we get?
JJ is one sorry POS--and I can't say much more for the family members that are going along with this.
The family lacks class and I hear the Liberian community has distanced itself from them. Unfortunately they will probably be rewarded for their behavior with a settlement of some kind.
Early signs appear that this may be the real deal. Hopefully I'm wrong.
im listening to Dallas area radio and they are reporting it.
what i dont know is, is this guy some random person who came in contact, or is this a close family member that was in the house with him....
that matters because if its one of the people he was living with, i think we all expect that. but if this is a random contact.... err... uhm... uhhh.....
that is Highland Park. It is a very nice area though.
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