"Hospital 'dropped the ball' with Ebola patient's travel history, NIH official says" by Catherine E. Shoichet, Ashley Fantz and Holly Yan.
A patient was releases from a hospital in Texas without a proper diagnosis. Normally, this wouldn’t be a huge concern except this patient had recently travelled to Liberia where he contracted Ebola. Failure to link the patient’s symptoms to the virus was due to the fact that doctors did not have a full history of his travels. Ebola has already killed thousands in Africa, and the failure to diagnose the virus caused possibly thousands of other people to be exposed to the virus.
Personally, I think that it was very neglectful of the doctors at fault. They not only put their patient at great risk, but possibly the entire nation. Ebola is obviously a very contagious disease, and it should have been monitored for more closely because it was only a matter of time before the disease transferred to other continents.
I agree that the doctors who treated this patient should have paid more attention to his symptoms and recent travel history. By being neglectful, these doctors have definitely put several people at risk of contracting this disease. Hopefully doctors in Texas will be able to contain the spread of Ebola to the rest of the country by monitoring all the people that the patient was in contact with.
ReplyDeleteThis is a dangerous situation. I agree that it is a fault with the doctors not properly diagnosing the patient. Since this virus is so deadly, I believe that we should crack down on who is admitted into the United States from Ebola-carrying countries. It is for the benefit of the nation as a whole.
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