Thomas Eric Duncan Identified as First US Ebola Patient

[951-Riverside]

Source: Associated Press

DALLAS—The sister of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States says he told officials the first time he went to the hospital that he was visiting from Liberia.

Mai Wureh told The Associated Press that her brother, Thomas Eric Duncan, went to a Dallas emergency room on Friday and was sent him away with antibiotics. He returned two days later to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and was admitted.

Dr. Mark Lester confirmed Wednesday that a nurse asked Duncan on his first visit whether he had been in an area affected by the Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands in West Africa but that the “information was not fully communicated throughout the whole team.”

Read more: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/992702-thomas-eric-duncan-identified-as-first-us-ebola-patient-breaking-news/

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His facebook profile (His sister Mai Wureh is on his friends list) :

https://www.facebook.com/thomaseric.duncan

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Great.

Now how long will it take for the threats to roll in from the crazies?

[Sunlei]

2. "went to a Dallas emergency room on Friday and was sent away with antibiotics"

[christx30]

8. I had bad gall stones

And no insurance in Austin, Texas. I was sent home with just some pain meds and a $3000 bill. I have seen things like this happen all the time.
Depending how busy and emergency room is, doctors will only do the bare minimum to stop you from dying and send you home

[Sunlei]

9. you had a very painful condition!

I knew a Texas Mom with a heart condition & no insurance. She waited with her 11 yr old daughter in an emergency room for several hours. She passed away in that emergency room, alone with her daughter.

I also knew Dr. Alan Taylor, an emergency Dr. for Ben Taub emergency room in the Med Center. He would personally keep contact with the hospital triage system, had compassion for every person waiting for help. Never did the 'bare minimum', would give his phone number to people he knew needed further treatment & help them navigate the Tx. 'no insurance'system. Dr. Taylor got MS, passed away from it, he was loved!

Quality hospital triage, is the difference between life & death. I wish everyone was treated with the best care, not the minimum.

[fasttense]

3. You have got to understand Texas teaches creatoinism and NOT evolution

So to those doctors and nurses those ebola viruses only infect what God wants them to infect and that does not include good evolution fearing white Christians.

[FarPoint]

4. Computerized charting has its downfalls...

Filling in the blanks take priority over 1:1 narrative assessment. The good stuff like " I just came from Liberia where Ebola is an epidemic", these facts get lost. Reading through the boring stuff takes time which is always a shortage in an ER.

[murielm99]

5. I can agree with that.

I see an endocrinologist a couple times a year. I swear she never makes eye contact with me. She is too busy filling in the blanks on the computer screen in front of her. Her visits are quite costly, too.

[yellowcanine]

11. Think it has more to do with improperly trained triage doctors and nurses.

There is no need to read anything. The person taking the history is supposed to notify someone immediately in the case of the possibility of an infectious disease. In this case either someone failed to notify or the person who was notified dropped the ball.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Did he describe his close contact with an Ebola patient or just say he

was from West Africa? Most people from West Africa with fever will still have something else.

[rocktivity]

10. That's what I've been wondering

If he didn't relay that particular piece of information to the hospital, he certainly should have -- though he shouldn't have been allowed to leave the country in the first place.


rocktivity

[quadrature]

7. 2024 presidential election...fewer EVs for Texas.... nt