The Head of the Hospital in Texas should be fired ~ malaise

[dutch508]

malaise (124,182 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025681239

The Head of the Hospital in Texas should be fired
Notice that they have hired some big time lawyers.
They started this mess - sending Duncan away with that high fever and pain was a major error.
Don't blame the CDC or the Federal government - blame the ReTHUGs - ReTHUG cuts kill!!!

Howie Dean is telling some serious truth on Alex Wagner, GEM$NBComcast.

 

Faux pas (3,853 posts)
1. Agreed then get rid of the head oops perry. 

 

hollysmom (2,910 posts)
2. For get just thehead, get rid of the whole board, It says it is a non-profit hospital, but it is run by a for profit company, sort of confuses me a bit. I am sure they would have gotten bonuses for cutting costs.

SO far we know that
1) racism was to blame
2) not having insurance was to blame, but foreign countries have provided free insurance for visitors for a long time
3) being cheap was too blame.  

   You don't know a gawddammed thing, stupid DUmpmonkie!

hollysmom (2,910 posts)
6. I have to look up who said it (not the family or any of their reps), maybe someone from the CDC

but they did say it, I will check my sources, but for all you knew I could have some inside sources, or it could just be something I believe, which I have a right to say.

Are you saying ebola that did not infect his own family that lived with him when he was contagious has any excuse to infect so many from that hospital? The family even had to stay in the apartment for weeks with his contaminated products.
There is no reason to think the hospital sent a very sick man home form the hospital because he did not need their care unless they cared about insurance.

It is a non-profit hospital and it is run by a for profit company, this I know. I looked it up. I know how companies run, I worked for an outsourcing company and they got bonuses for not paying out money.

SO I amy not know everything in the world, but there are some things I do know.

No, you don't.

hollysmom (2,910 posts)
16. well, you have more faith in people than I do But then I had a cousin die of a heart attack after being sent home from the hospital 3 times in one night as a case of Indigestion, even after he gave his family history of heart disease. He died getting ready to go to a different hospital.

 

 

JCMach1 (22,093 posts)
9. How about Rick Perry while we are at it!

So Rick Perry is at fault for the actions of a private hospital yet Barry the wonder kid isn't responsible for his own government?

countryjake (6,682 posts)
19. At the very least, the hospital needs to be investigated!

Thomas Eric Duncan could very well still be alive today if they had admitted him on that first visit and provided him the care that's required for a person suffering from Ebola. Instead, they gave him tylenol for his severe pain and antibiotics, supposedly to take care of whatever was causing a spiking fever (his temperature went up to 103 while he was right there in that hospital being examined on Sept 26). Sent. him. home.

In one of the multiple misleading dumbass statements released by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital during the week that Mr. Duncan was dying there, they admitted that the hospital had received alerts from the CDC prior to their first encounter with him, concerning proper action to take with any patients who exhibited symptoms of Ebola, and those alerts included taking a travel history. The administrators in that hospital knew what should have been done and why; did they pass that info on down to their medical staff, did they stress the importance of what needed to be done when a patient informed them that he had come from Liberia only six days earlier?

The rightwingers have jumped on this Bengola train with glee, turning what needs to be seen as a serious global health emergency into an idiotic political game just to sway uninformed people over to their disgusting agenda.

Malaise, did you catch this article from the Washington Post about Ebola? Above all else, ignoring the shrieking ignorant rants of Re-thugs attacking Dr. Frieden, the CDC, or President Obama, my country and every nation of the world needs to step up and go into West Africa to help end this epidemic right where it began.

Obvious mole.

[USA4ME]

hollysmom

Poor Holly. With a mother like the hollysmom primitive, she didn't stand a dogs chance.

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[thundley4]

How about firing the head of the CDC?  It was his people that told the nurse it was okay to fly with a fever.

One of the DUmmies brought up a good point, though.  We've had two health care workers come down with Ebola  after taking what they thought were appropriate precautions.

Yet there were several people living in an aprtment with the deceased first victim with no training and no special precautions. Should not all, or at least some of them came down with it by now?

How would we know for sure, though.  They were moved to a private residence and no one knows where they are. They may be six feet under already for all we know.

[Chris_]

Poor Holly. With a mother like the hollysmom primitive, she didn't stand a dogs chance.

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Pam?

[BlueStateSaint]

Pam?

That's what I was thinking, but Pam's spawn spells her name 'Holli,' IIRC.

[Chris_]

You've got a better shot using a Magic 8 Ball than following the advice from the CDC.

[Carl]

Their desperation is obvious.

[Ptarmigan]

Making Ebola political.  Racism had nothing to do with Thomas Duncan dying from Ebola. He should of been admitted first time after he said West Africa and fever. Everyone from CDC to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital screwed up.

[obumazombie]

Sarah Palin should be fired.