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hedgehog

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3. I think the problem here is that someone has to be in charge -

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 01:25 PM

Oct 2014

it's hard to fight an epidemic when you're busy hiring people to answer the phones. Bureaucracies don't function well when people can't follow procedure. (and I use the term bureaucracy in a good way here - a group of people organized to respond quickly to various events.)

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The Surgeon General - what I didn't know. [View all] hedgehog Oct 2014 OP

exactly. appointing an ebola czar was a cave, ideally we could have insisted on the sg confirmation unblock Oct 2014 #1

Technically yes-- but the public health service commissioned corps are already engaged via their hlthe2b Oct 2014 #2

I think the problem here is that someone has to be in charge - hedgehog Oct 2014 #3

This isn't the CDC or Public Health Service's first national/international threat hlthe2b Oct 2014 #4

I apologize for being unclear in my reference. hedgehog Oct 2014 #6

Gotcha... Yeah the politicallization of all this is quite irritating and fruitless. hlthe2b Oct 2014 #7

I knew as soon as I made my post that I had been unclear - hedgehog Oct 2014 #10

And 65 USPHS doctors and nurses will staff the 25-bed hospital built by U.S. forces in Liberia... pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #11

Did you know we have a Surgeon General? GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #5

Well, Acting Surgeon General. Still, it's a nice opportunity hedgehog Oct 2014 #8

Acting... n/t hlthe2b Oct 2014 #9

He has the exact same powers as a confirmed SG, branford Oct 2014 #12

That isn't the point at all, but... hlthe2b Oct 2014 #13

Maybe true, but as I point out in my prior post, branford Oct 2014 #14