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| Dallas hospital may face state inquiry on Ebola patient's handling |
| 2014-10-11 |
| The state health department may investigate a Dallas hospital’s handling of the nation’s first Ebola case as medical records released Friday raise more troubling questions about the Liberian patient’s initial treatment. Thomas Eric Duncan had fever that hit as high as 103 degrees and Ebola-like symptoms, including abdominal pain, dizziness, a headache and reduced urination, when he arrived Sept. 25 at the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, according to hospital records the family gave to The Associated Press. The records depict a man far sicker than hospital officials had initially indicated, with details that left some infectious disease experts aghast...Questions about the hospital’s handling of the case intensified Friday with the release of the records in North Carolina. “It sounds like they did a whole battery of tests, but the problem is they didn’t get the most important piece of information, which is, ‘I came from West Africa,’” said Dr. Alexander Garza, associate dean of public health at St. Louis University College of Public Health. “There’s plenty of examples in history of medical people who got led down the wrong path because they didn’t ask the right questions. Sadly.” Other experts were more critical. “It’s just colossal incompetence,” said Dr. Joseph McCormick, regional dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Brownsville, who helped investigate the first recorded outbreak of Ebola in 1976. “How could you possibly be given this, with his travel history, and not have considered him to be a prime suspect for Ebola?” ...Dr. William Schaffner, chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said that, even without knowing the man had been in Africa, the symptoms reported in the medical records suggest the patient might have been too sick to be sent home. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 Sat through the CNN interview yesterday of Duncan's nephew by Erinn talking head; his slant was 100% race based and she never, not once called him on it. Then in an amazing 2-fer, her next story was about the latest St. Louis white cop shoots black kid and her interviewees were only the black kids family and not one, single representative from the police dept. Race baiting for ratings, that is what I came away with. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-10-11 14:45 |
| #1 Guarantee one thing: if his fever was higher than 101.4, someones ass is fired, and license is at risk. Thats massive incompetence. Guarntee one other thing: The software, although contributory to the mess, will be exculpated - know why? Epic is owned by a big Obama money bundler and supporter, which makes her and her company "untouchable" by Fed authorities and anyone else vulnerable to political pressure. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-11 13:26 |