Dallas Presby ER gonna have some explaining to do..sent the guy home from ER

[rainbow4321]

When he first went there Thursday or Friday. Sent home with antibiotics for "vague" symptoms.
I suspected that when the CDC guy wouldn't answer a reporter's question about that happening...and now Presby docs are being grilled about it and 'fessing

Wish they would release where all the guy went here in the Dallas area between his first and second ER visits.

[PCIntern]

1. Hahnemann ER in Philly sent former President Ford home

with a stroke-in-progress in 2000 here at the Rethug convention. Geniuses all...

[underpants]

2. You know what they call the guy who finishes last in his class in med school?

Doctor

[Johonny]

5. +1

[marlakay]

3. I bet NO insurance!

Since he was from out of the country.

Surprised they gave him any care with that...of course no extra tests if you don't have insurance and he probably didn't offer that he came from Africa.

[rainbow4321]

8. That was my thought, too

No insurance at a private hospital, throw some pills at him and send him away.

It was just announced here tonight that te EMS workers who took him to Presby on Sunday have been quarantined.

This is going to be a horrible ripple effect. If they are putting the EMS workers in isolation what about the ER workers who took care of him for both visits. And the hospital will have to track down those other patients who were in the waiting room and ER during both visits...well, mainly the first one where he wa most likely in the waiting room with him, etc.

Additional note..city of Dallas has activated its Emergency Operation Center to Level 2 High Readiness.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Oh crap, here we go.

[elehhhhna]

6. if he was sick enough to go to ER

he probably didn't go sightseeing after they released him...

[LisaL]

7. But he was sitting in the emergency room, he then went home, with his family around.

Who knows how many people were exposed during this time.

[rainbow4321]

9. Like Texas Fair :( :/

That would be fucked up on multiple levels. It started last week. Surely he didn't feel up to it but the epidemiology officials need to make sure none of the people exposed to HIM between Wednesday and Sunday went there.

[uppityperson]

11. If they were asymptomatic, they are not contagious and it takes 2-21 days for symptoms

to show up so unlikely anyone else was exposed, just not enough time.

[LisaL]

10. And antibiotics would be useless against a viral disease.