I'm about 1/4 of the way through, and I wish it was fiction. It really makes me think that the people who take care of these patients, the ones who know what they're getting into, are really heroes. My daughter is applying for an RN position in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a very large, famous hospital. One that will be in the front lines if this breaks out. Scares the hell out of me. I was fairly knowledgeable about Ebola before I started reading this book, but somehow it has taken on a whole new sense of reality.
I’m an RN, too. I wonder if we will be drafted if there’s a large scale outbreak.
I once got a notice from the Virginia Board of Nursing informing me that I have been earmarked as a mandated first responder and requesting my contact info. That was a long time ago, though.
What’s disturbing about the book is the number of times protocol was broken by those who know better. By those who were fairly certain they were dealing with a level 4 pathogen.
And no adminstrative action was ever taken for any of these breeches of protocol.
Nothing can be said about these medical troops that can describe how fearless they truly are.