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In reply to the discussion: My Dallas Ebola Hospital Theory - ENJOY! [View all]DrDan
(20,411 posts)3. I think you hit it on the head
my thoughts as well
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You left out the druggies that routinely arrive having extreme pain that over
appleannie1
Oct 2014
#1
Yeah. They need to look at how many other hospitals had protocols in place that would have flagged
brewens
Oct 2014
#6
It was a software glitch. The travel info was not transferred from admissions to doctors.
librechik
Oct 2014
#9
that's a poor excuse. This has been a blaring top story for fucking weeks and weeks
cali
Oct 2014
#10
You are correct. Just that correctness does not generate the desired fear the media desire.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#17
Right-- he told them he had come from Liberia. And I don't mean to defend the hospital, but...
Gidney N Cloyd
Oct 2014
#58
Knowing to protect themselves from Hepatitis from any number of persons coming in to the ER,
DhhD
Oct 2014
#22
The insurance companies broke our health care system out of sheer greed.
mountain grammy
Oct 2014
#39
CDC has been providing hospitals and expecially ERs with detailed guidance on this whole ebola thing
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#43
Or, the triage nurse could've received a memo about patients from "West Africa"...
Barack_America
Oct 2014
#45