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CDC Official: TX ER "dropped the ball" on 1st US Ebola case
(CNN) -- The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola on American soil went to the emergency room last week, but was released from the hospital even though he told staff he had traveled from Liberia.

"A travel history was taken, but it wasn't communicated to the people who were making the decision.
wasn't "fully communicated" to doctors -- Texas doctors are incapable of taking their patients' medical / travel history on their own initiative? Was the patient incapable of giving this history? Or was the medical & nursing staff simply running on automatic pilot?
I know where Liberia is and I know why it's important...
It was a mistake. They dropped the ball," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"You don't want to pile on them, but hopefully this will never happen again. ... The CDC has been vigorously emphasizing the need for a travel history," Fauci told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper."

Hospital officials have acknowledged that the patient's travel history wasn't "fully communicated" to doctors, but also said in a statement Wednesday that based on his symptoms, there was no reason to admit him when he first came to the emergency room last Thursday night.
based on his symptoms, there was no reason -- weasel words. In what alternate universe is medical treatment & disposition based on symptoms alone? Once I was on the verge of sending a patient home based on symptoms alone, until the family informed me that the patient had passed out in their living room & they performed CPR before bringing granny to the ER. Naturally granny had no idea about this & so couldn't account for her sore chest.
Now wait: ER docs have to make this call all the time and I don't envy them. It is the patients you send home that worry you the most. How many people roll into the ER every day with a little fever and GI distress? Plenty. How many do we admit -- virtually none, because they don't require admission. And if we admitted them all we wouldn't have beds for anyone else.

You write as if you're a doc as well -- so then, you know this as well as I do. What the hospital said may not have been weasel words at all -- if they didn't know the man's travel history then he's got a fever and tummy ache. That doesn't punch your ticket.

As always, we need for info. Of course we can't trust CNN for that.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-02
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