The Ebola patient and denial -

[JayhawkSD]

4. It's not up to the patient to tell medical professionals what he thinks he has.

My father was a physician, and when a regular patient who he knew well would say "I think I have susc and such" my dad would ask him where he went to medical school.

It is the responsibility of medical professionals to determine the nature of the patient's problem from symptoms presented and from facts available to them, and he did tell them he had been in Liberia. I know it is always fun to blame the victim, but don't go there. The error at the hosital was not his, it was the hospital staff.

He did the wrong thing when leaving Liberia when he told the authorities he had not been in contact with any persons sick with Ebola.