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In reply to the discussion: My Dallas Ebola Hospital Theory - ENJOY! [View all]VA_Jill
(10,095 posts)1. This is not, apparently, a public type hospital, or at least that's what I'm hearing. Whether or not it gets the usual stuff that someplace like Parkland gets is open to question. However, it's big, so, granted, the ED is busy.
2.It's located in a neighborhood that has a large immigrant population, and many of those immigrants are from countries in--you guessed it, WEST AFRICA. That should raise a few flags right there!
3. "Likes to travel" wasn't the question--the man CAME FROM Liberia! Hellooooo......!
4. Protocols WERE in place. Unfortunately, it seems the computer charting system may have been inherently screwed up, which is not outside the realm of possibility. In my career as a travel nurse, I learned at least 8 different systems of computer charting, and all but one of them sucked big time. However, hospital IT people are among the poorest paid in the business, and hospitals are notoriously cheap when it comes to paying for IT, so you get what you pay for.
So, sorry, from this nurse's viewpoint, your theory has many holes.