Texas hospital is "deeply sorry"
 

Well then, doesn't that just make everything all better!

The top doctors there should be shot. Has nobody at that hospital seen the movie outbreak?

Shooting the doctors would cause blood spray and might expand the outbreak. :2 cents:

Texas is horrible with healthcare. Patient zero came to one of the worst possible states.

Was watching an interview with a African crew who worked taking the bodies of ebola victims and disposing of them. They are meticulous in the disinfecting, result? Several months in, 5000 bodies removed, not a single infection in his team.
A US hospital not only got two staff infected on Patient Zero, they even permitted an infected nurse to fly despite regulations (she seemingly contacted them for permission to fly, which was granted).

In all seriousness, allowing one Ebola patient to infect two nurses does demonstrate an absolutely stunning level of incompetence.
If the hospitals in Sierra Leone were this bad all their staff would be dead by now.

Yep. West Africans are smarter than Americans.

Congratulations to all of us.

Were the nurses infected before or after they knew the patient had contracted ebola?

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I think it's drill, but if not weaterporn could be on spot :Oh crap:Oh crap:Oh crap

This is what happens when you walk into a Texas hospital with Ebola with no health insurance, they send you home.

Texas has world renown medical centers. the history of medical breakthroughs in cardiac treatment at the houston medical center alone are legendary.

I'm not getting the criticism here of the hospital admitting culpability, apologizing for it and stating what they are doing about their mistakes.

someone fill me in, isn't that what they are supposed to do when they fuck-up?

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF...D-20141016.pdf

Yep. MD Anderson in Houston is world renown for cancer treatment.

have you seen them lately? The Republicans running the state have let it slip to one of the worst in the nation.

sorry is not a cure :Oh crap :helpme :disgust

texas ranks well at Best Hospitals in Texas - US News Best Hospitals

Actually no, any African crews who have such protocols in place were trained by westerners. Our N American doctors and nurses and infection control specialists have the setups and protocols in place over there. The problem here is that most if not all Canadian and US hospitals SAY they have certain protocols as standard procedure but the sad fact is that few if any are truly ready to handle this kind of potential major outbreak.

Nursing staff and doctors from major Canadian health care centres have been on the news this week stating flat-out that they aren't fully ready here. Special isolation suits are needed, a set of detailed protocols have to be in place for entering and exiting rooms of infected patients, handling and sterilization of equipment, etc. It all has to be done a certain way, and that hospital in Texas simply did not have it all in place and ready for this.

Few if any other N American facilities would have (no matter what they say or how modern they are). But they're learning now that they need to get their shit together fast, based on this one example.

Why you engage with idiots is beyond me; do you really think he cares? It is a Republican state, that is all that matters to his kind. :2 cents:

The first nurse infected had only been a nurse for like 2 months I think? In hindsight they said that the very best and most well trained staff should have been assigned. For some reason they even quarantined her dog, which can not possibly contract the disease. I think they said out of an abundance of caution, but come on. I have no trouble blaming that hospital for their screw ups. The screw ups are even bigger because they're in Texas.

BP said sorry and that fixed the gulf coast...

The fact that 2 nurses have become infected at Texas Presbyterian speaks for itself: the hospital is run incompetently and is a public nuisance in dealing with Ebola.

There is no excuse for an ''advanced'' nation's preparedness and performance in dealing with a dangerous disease being so pathetic.

I guess it's different when you blame Obama for everything under the sun. That's totally legit..

We seem so afraid to just quarantine people for sake of the safety of others.

actions not words 'fixes' anything, should we all just say fuck it and never apologise for anything, as that doesn't fix the problem?

A sincere apology is exactly that, it's not an excuse, not a get out of jail free attempt, but simply a sincere apology and recognition of wrongdoing. I can never understand the logic behind 'well sorry doesn't fix it'.

That's not a dig at you Sly, more an observation on how that response has been ingrained in society now as the immediate reaction to apologies.

I blame Obama for this thread. :mad:

If ebola started to spread in the U.S or europe for that matter we can all say goodbye to the world economy, stability and our lifestyle. Prepare yourself for a life outside the grid back to the stoneage.

What have I ever blamed on Obama other than the influx of retards that seemed to flock to GFY?

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That Texas hospital has created a new problem for epidemical response that is critical in containing the outbreak of Ebola:

Belize refuses entry to Carnival cruise ship carrying Texas hospital worker who may have handled Ebola victim?s specimen
Belize refuses entry to Carnival cruise ship carrying Texas hospital worker who may have handled Ebola victim’s specimen - The Washington Post

They ( Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital ) have created public mistrust and reason for all healthcare workers to be cautious of any involvement in the treatment and containment of the Ebola disease.

This all started with he has no insurance send him home. If this doesnt make people wake to the reason why we need baseline healthcare everyone in this country. I dont what will.

Ebola is just next money making word

the incubation stage sounds scary at first (2-21 days) but you aren't even contagious until you've ALREADY started showing symptoms. This is very controllable even in the worst case scenario.

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You mean we should be offering free heathcare to whoever crossed our borders?

odd, if that is the case how did they manage to send 'patient zero' with 'patient negative one' home as fine?