Insider Info - what they're not telling you about Dallas Ebola

Medical professionals don't do this.

If you were inside the hospital within the last 7 days, you are not a candidate for elective surgery there or at any hospital for 21 days.

CDC has confiscated ALL lab samples and taken them to Atlanta so tests will have to be done again.

There were so many people exposed from the labs, to the bathroom, nurses, doctors, patients that they probably are assuming any or all could have been exposed. That guy was pretty far gone and they let him go....

Glad the truth is coming out. Are they contacting and quarantining everyone that for instance went to the lab, etc?

I take it your surgeries were cancelled......be safe.

Medical professionals don't do this.

Are you retarded, ebola spread through fluids, being in the same room as somebody with ebola is not gonna get you infected.

Are you kidding me? The only group of "professionals" that gossip more are pilots, followed by a close second of cops.

Not proud but I own it.

As many of y'all know I am an RN. I pull a couple shifts a week at various ER thru a temping agency (allowing me to keep my skills sharp) but my main gig is with a well known plastic surgeon in the area.

Most of his work is very private (niche hospitals) and recovery takes place in a non traditional hospital setting etc.

Occasionally though and especially for pro-bono cases we will use area hospitals - Presbyterian is one of those hospitals.

According to the news, life is normal at Presbyterian sans the single isolation patient.

Nothing could be further from the truth. All elective surgeries have ceased - not even routed to different hospitals. If patients did there pre-surgery labs on campus they will now be delayed 21 additional days and have to retest. That's got to tell you something.

I'll post more info as I get it - supposedly legal has sent out a notice barring anyone discussing the matter but I am not their employee.

Medical professionals don't do this.

I stopped reading after I saw the slang word y'all

Saying it is one thing but I can't take you seriously if you write that stupid word.

Thanks OP. Do you hear anything about the infected patients race? U.S. Citizen or not? Also, is the neighborhood around that hospital affluent, middle class, poor?

I stopped reading after I saw the slang word y'all

Saying it is one thing but I can't take you seriously if you write that stupid word.

You got this info through gossip? Yeah, gossip is always 100% factual.

The first patient was at the ER two days before getting sicker and was sent home with antibiotics that first visit. They may have done lab-work on him that day in the ER. If that is the case, his blood sample may have not only contaminated other samples, but possibly the lab technicians themselves. That is my guess....the lab techs are probably being monitored as well.
Almost all major surgeries want post labs after the surgery to be sure everything is kosher before the person is discharged home. Some people also have biopsies, etc. If the lab techs are being monitored and their supplies possibly also being contaminated...this would be the reason for the 21 day hold.

An yes nurses do gossip. Word gets around fast when it comes to healthcare about certain things that we would be-in-the-know about. LPN here, not an RN, but 21 years put into nursing none-the-less. I have always worked in geriatrics.
Kudos to the OP

you should probably explain that to all the medical staff who have already died in Africa

I stopped reading after I saw the slang word y'all

Saying it is one thing but I can't take you seriously if you write that stupid word.

I am a sales rep and I sell infectious disease equipment into hospitals. My docs have told me that there are three other infected in different hospitals. It will be made public within next two days. Our sales have skyrocketed. The problem is that the only thing that kills Ebola is bleach. Buy bleach and prepare to be on lock down in your houses for the next two months to wait out the infection.

The government is really dragging their feet here. They don't want panic but they do believe that it is isolated. They are nuts!

As many of y'all know I am an RN. I pull a couple shifts a week at various ER thru a temping agency (allowing me to keep my skills sharp) but my main gig is with a well known plastic surgeon in the area.

Most of his work is very private (niche hospitals) and recovery takes place in a non traditional hospital setting etc.

Occasionally though and especially for pro-bono cases we will use area hospitals - Presbyterian is one of those hospitals.

According to the news, life is normal at Presbyterian sans the single isolation patient.

Nothing could be further from the truth. All elective surgeries have ceased - not even routed to different hospitals. If patients did there pre-surgery labs on campus they will now be delayed 21 additional days and have to retest. That's got to tell you something.

I'll post more info as I get it - supposedly legal has sent out a notice barring anyone discussing the matter but I am not their employee.