<p>Am guessing they would sue for negligence, malpractice or wrongful death. Who is screaming?? I dont see that.</p>
<p>sally called me igooooooo. I interpreted that screaming at me. Could be mistaken. Who knows.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/10/05/6175450/girlfriends-hopes-and-dreams-crushed.html”>http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/10/05/6175450/girlfriends-hopes-and-dreams-crushed.html</a></p>
<p>Whatever. And yeah, not seeing the screaming either. </p>
<p>'I’m pretty sure that if it was your loved one who died when he or she didn’t have to, you’d be taking some sort of action to make sure it doesn’t happen again"</p>
<p>Oh please. They exposed the entire community by leaving the apartment after they knew he had Ebola. This is not about preventing anything.</p>
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<p>“IGLOOO” is screaming
“igooooooo” looks like fat-fingered typing</p>
<p>Okay, that’s fine. When something is really cute I go awwwwwww. I guess it’s just me. Not relevant to the main point.</p>
<p>The wedding story is iffy at best, especially since Louise herself was asked by Anderson Cooper and she said he was planning to come for a high school graduation but couldn’t afford the plane ticket until after the episode with the dying girl. There is a version for everyone, though.</p>
<p>“If they didn’t suspect Ebola why did they call CDC?”</p>
<p>The call to the CDC from the half brother was after he had been given antibiotics but was not only not getting better but he was getting worse. </p>
<p>I cannot believe people think it is odd or somehow suspicious that the half brother called the CDC. Would you have rather he didn’t call? </p>
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<p>I wasn’t accusing him he came here to be cured. Just that he must have suspected of Ebola when he went to ER. They are not the same thing.</p>
<p>Listening to KLCK and almost dying from laughter! The segment is about trying to fix relationsips that are going south. The morning show hosts called a guy (who lives in my neck of the woods!) who built a shed in his backyard and stuffed it with deer meat in preps for Ebola epidemic, and his wife thought it was way over the top, so they had a big fallout. Please don’t be that guy!</p>
<p>My keyboard sticks all the time. Get lots of extra letters… Its not screaming. And capslock happens too.</p>
<p>Anyway, apologies to frugaldoctor-- I meant to say PWB not EWB. My son does EWB (engineers without borders) so my typo, my bad.</p>
<p>The most common outcome for a person who is infected with Ebola is a swift and gruesome death. If you have Ebola and receive treatment both conventional and experimental and you still die how could you sue for wrongful death? Death, it seems to me, is the default position here.</p>
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<p>No I didn’t. I gave you one extra “o” on top of the extra one you already had. Geez.</p>
<p>Again that’s fine. It’s not the main point. Thanks for clearing that up.</p>
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<p>I’m kind of confused by this. In the past, when I felt a doctor didn’t correctly diagnose me because I wasn’t getting any better, it didn’t even occur to me to call the CDC. It seems to me to be obvious that the family suspected ebola to take that kind of action. That doesn’t necessarily have to be a criticism to make that connection.</p>
<p>I have been very clear that I think a huge mistake was made at Duncan’s first ER visit. However, it is a pretty big stretch to insist that those two days cost him his life. We absolutely do not know that he would have lived. In fact, chances are that since our care at this point is largely supportive only, he likely wouldn’t have.</p>
<p>The bigger issue (IMO) with him being sent home after his initial visit was the fact that he then came into contact with multiple individuals while contagious. </p>
<p>Generally it is only considered screaming when the letters are all in caps. </p>
<p>“I’m kind of confused by this. In the past, when I felt a doctor didn’t correctly diagnose me because I wasn’t getting any better, it didn’t even occur to me to call the CDC. It seems to me to be obvious that the family suspected ebola to take that kind of action. That doesn’t necessarily have to be a criticism to make that connection.”</p>
<p>I suspect once they realized he was not getting any better, but was getting worse even though on antibiotics - the half brother, at least, suspected it might be Ebola. Now, I wouldn’t expect anyone to think of calling the CDC when misdiagnosed for most things, but if you suspected someone (not you) might have Ebola you might indeed call the CDC or the State Health Department at the very least. I certainly would. </p>
<p>Would you rather he hadn’t called the CDC and why? </p>
<p>The CDC has a hotline # so, imo, it is not unusual for people to call the CDC for a variety of reasons. </p>
<p>“The number is (800) 232-4636 (800-CDC-INFO). This is an integrated CDC hotline service. Callers to this number are given several options, one of which is immunization. This line will accommodate English and Spanish.”</p>
<p>emily, you are agreeing with people who thought they suspected he had Ebola in your post. </p>
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<p>My seven-year-old daughter and I were skiing on a slope at the bottom of the mountain. There was a huge banner with “SLOW SKIING ZONE” at the top of this hill. She and I were snowplowing, zigzagging back and forth. A woman in her 50s was trying to keep up with her husband, skiing fast and straight down the hill, and plowed right into me, knocking me over. She apologized and gave me her contact info. When I stood up, my left leg was a noodle - my knee was floppy. My MCL was torn badly. I didn’t need surgery, but I did have bills for the doctor, physical therapist, and knee brace. I sent her very thorough documentation of all my expenses, and she blew me off! Her husband actually talked to my husband and said, “Well, your wife is not a very good skier, and she was hard to see…” Uh, I was on the bunny slope, I am 5’-9" and not tiny, and I had on a bright turquoise ski outfit. Geez. My tiny daughter was wearing a white snowsuit. That’s what got me - it could have been my little girl who got plowed over. </p>
<p>So I filed a claim and she still ignored me. Finally, two days before the court date, her homeowners’ insurance company called me and said, “Well, it’s kind of a gray area…” ACK! It was about as black and white as it gets. Anyway, they agreed to pay and sent me a check by overnight mail. But the whole experience was exhausting and consumed me for months.</p>
<p>“emily, you are agreeing with people who thought they suspected he had Ebola in your post”</p>
<p>No, I am not. I am saying it is quite possible that they did not suspect it until after he had been given antibiotics and sent home from the ER and wasn’t getting better. It is quite likely, imo, that when the hospital sent him home with antibiotics and without even considering Ebola - even though he told them he had just come from Liberia - they assumed it was nothing for him/them to be concerned about. I bet the ER doctor even told him he would be feeling better in a few days. </p>
<p>And it is likely that the half brother called the CDC because the CDC has been the agency which has been all over the media discussing Ebola since the first doctor in Liberia was diagnosed and discussion began on bringing him home. It was the CDC which had the first televised press conferences on Ebola and the continued to have their press conferences televised (along with Emory) when the 2nd medical worker was diagnosed. </p>
<p>Then why go to the ER at all? He only reportedly had a stomache-ache that day. No other symptoms.</p>