Ebola crisis is testing Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

Ebola appeared out of nowhere. A delayed diagnosis, a patient’s death and two infected nurses reflected a cascade of mishaps while “Presby,” as the hospital charmingly is called, became linked to a fearsome disease and global exposure of the worst kind.

This has been a hospital under siege. Ever since the night when a man from Liberia entered the emergency department — one that, as few know, is run by an outside contractor, not the hospital — a new reality has altered Presbyterian’s course.

What can't be emphasized enough is that the CEO Barclay Berdan of Texas Health Resources has contributed to the campaign of DemonRAT Chet Edwards, since ousted as the representative of the Texas 17th congressional district. Moreover the hospital is run as a non-profit. That means there's no incentive for excellence and, of course, no accountability to shareholders. Plus the burdensome regulations imposed by hussein's central government are directly responsible for the errors made in the case of Thomas Eric Duncan.

This is an epiDEMic caused by liberalism and a foolish embrace of multiculturalism. Diversity is a death knell for a civilization. In its zeal to be politically correct, Texas Health Resources touts its

commitment to diversity. Is it any wonder that the America's first Obola outbreak was so badly handled?

I remember back in the 80's when corporations would appoint a diversity executive. It was usually a post for a filly from the CEO's ex-girlfriend pool, or a relative of a board member. It was a patronage job to be filled by someone who had a small budget and would do no harm.

Oh my, how times have changed.

As for hospitals and their continued existence facing Ebola, just 100 cases of Ebola diagnosed, treated properly, contained and exposures managed, would bankrupt the largest healthcare providers out there. Just 10 cases at one hospital would destroy staffing resources. Each employee would be prohibited from treating other patients due to cross contamination. Each employee would not be able to work other patients during and for a month after patient discharge or death. Anyone who knows staffing models for various industries knows what this means.

Every medical facility should have been notified with a complete national response to this contagion. The newspapers, TV and radio should be alerting the citizens about the appropriate response to flu-type symptoms. Otherwise, this upcoming flu season will have people swamping the emergency wards. A simple test that can be administered in a drug store should be available that gives rapid results. Such a device is already created but needs FDA approval. Let’s fast-track that approval.

A fast-track should be given to the production of the experimental serum ZMapp. This should be put on the level of what was done getting a man on the moon or the Manhattan Project, developing the atom bomb. Such a drug should be used to fight the epidemic in Africa. The mutation clock is ticking and we need to eliminate the virus before it mutates into something worse.

For those eating animals infected by the local bat feces, that practice has to stop. This virus will never be eradicated if animals continue to be infected by feces from infected bats. It is unfortunate that the bats that carry the Ebola virus must be eliminated. They are as bad as the mosquitoes carrying Malaria. A DDT for both is a good response—and Rachel Carson be damned!—there must be a Silent Spring when people are dying!

If a hospital is smart, and considering the CDC says it will take control of Ebola patients and relocate them, the correct “protocol” for suspected Ebola should be to isolate anybody meeting the profile in a hazmat tent outside the hospital, and only bring them inside if cleared. If positive for Ebola, the CDC can take custody from the hazmat tent.

That hospital should use fewer than five staff members on the experience and give them a two month paid vacation if they treat a positive patient.

“Patient X was treated completely outside our facility and we are taking extraordinary measures to ensure that our facility and on-duty staff have been completely isolated from exposure.” The benefit from being able to completely isolate a positive patient from their facility will be the difference between the next hospital surviving, or not.

Presby should have included in its statement that it was fully paying the salary of its isolated staff members and giving each of them a 20K hazardous duty bonus. The PR for such a move would be well worth the price.

Right now, a hospital’s biggest concern isn’t an epidemic. It’s the one patient that will destroy its business model.

Duncan will have caused close to a Billion dollars in direct damages stemming from his lie to enter America.

Duncan will have caused close to a Billion dollars in direct damages stemming from his lie to enter America.

Frankly, if I were a prospective patient (elective surgery, even an accident where I was awake and alert) to a hospital that was treating even ONE Ebola patient, I would tell the "Amberlamps" to take me somewhere else. Would a prospective mother-to-be in her right mind have a baby in one? I think not. IIRC, I've seen news accounts where the hospital in question is like a ghost town now.

So, extrapolate that on out to the 50 Ebola Hospitals the CDC gonna 'set up' in each state. Is there any profit making hospital willing to forego paying customers (good insurance) for Ebola patients? Likely what we will see are public hospitals in each state getting drafted for this honor, and they will take the Federal Government (us) for everything we're worth in recompense. For my state, I'll pretty much bet the Ebola Hospital is gonna be Grady Memorial in downtown Atlanta.

I’ve become increasingly convinced that this crisis is intentional. Nobody that functions at even a moderate level of intelligence can take actions so stupid as this bunch from Presby and the Feds at CDC have. I believe there are doctors who know what to do and how to do it right but that they are being overruled and that they do not have enough integrity or hope to fight back. This whole nation has been cowed like cur dogs. We have been whipped so much and so long we have given up.

Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.

I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.

Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.

Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?

Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?

I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.

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