Are you worried about Ebola?

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

ER doctors don't give a shit if someone has insurance or not.

He was sent away because that's what happens when someone comes to an ER with a fever and no symptoms of anything else.

Historically they haven't had any reason for greater concern. Their minds weren't in the Liberia+fever maybe = ebola.

I wouldn't be surprised if the doctor didn't even know he was from Liberia, it would have been the intake clerk who was told.

Youre fulla shit. MDs demand authorization from the insurance carrier, confirmation of Medicare Part B, or a cash deposit.

 

[phrodeau]

No shit. Ever notice people don't wear hazmat suits when treating people with HIV?

http://patch.com/georgia/dunwoody/officials-hazmat-suits-seize-70-ailing-cats-0#.VC6cqCldVCc

 

[about_average]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/12/health/ebola-airborne/

Take what you read in the news with a major grain of salt...like maybe a salt block.

Remember the "Ebola victims could total 1,000,000 within 12-18 weeks!" news reports?
What they based that on was a CDC (or WHO) report. What they didn't mention was that that was a worst case scenario resulting from a complete pull out of health care workers from the affected areas.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Some dumbass working for NBC news caught the Ebola.

How stupid do you have to be to get infected this late into the story?

First; don't go to Liberia!

Number B; if you are dumb enough to go there, don't swap body fluids with the sick people



But you know... "they" keep getting in my tv telling me how hard it is to catch, yet a few doctors and nurses, who you'd assume were properly trained, managed to catch it.

 

[about_average]

Youre fulla shit. MDs demand authorization from the insurance carrier, confirmation of Medicare Part B, or a cash deposit.

No MD in any ER or immediate care center I've ever been to in the US has ever done that.
Even if they wanted to the vast majority aren't allowed to, by law.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No MD in any ER or immediate care center I've ever been to in the US has ever done that.
Even if they wanted to the vast majority aren't allowed to, by law.

They do it all the time.

If you got no money they say you gotta cold and send you home with some ibuprophen. The government gives them money to treat the indigent but the money comes in one sack, not per patient.

BTW the VA hospitals are still fucking veterans with appointments.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Perfect!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzB4nCICIAAUP7J.png

 

[RobDownSouth]

Youre fulla shit. MDs demand authorization from the insurance carrier, confirmation of Medicare Part B, or a cash deposit.

That's simply not true.

 

[about_average]

They do it all the time.

If you got no money they say you gotta cold and send you home with some ibuprophen.

Utter bullshit.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That's simply not true.

I see it all the time.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Notice how Texas cant even remove the dude's toxic clothes because of bureaucratic bickering. NOT MY JOB MON.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My wife was talking to me just yesterday.

I don't know if I would go treat an Ebola patient. All we have is a gown that open in the back for isolation patients. This puts me into a real ethical dilemma.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My wife was talking to me just yesterday.

I don't know if I would go treat an Ebola patient. All we have is a gown that open in the back for isolation patients. This puts me into a real ethical dilemma.

Taking care of the sick runs contrary to the Glibertarian Prime Directive of survival of the fittest.

 

[about_average]

I see it all the time.

That may be, but in the real world, were most people live, it's not SOP.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That may be, but in the real world, were most people live, it's not SOP.

Something else the hospitals do is: If a customer is unhappy with the hospital they commit the customer to the local psychiatric receiving hospital for 72 hour observation.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Some dumbass working for NBC news caught the Ebola.

How stupid do you have to be to get infected this late into the story?

First; don't go to Liberia!

Number B; if you are dumb enough to go there, don't swap body fluids with the sick people



But you know... "they" keep getting in my tv telling me how hard it is to catch, yet a few doctors and nurses, who you'd assume were properly trained, managed to catch it.

I think you may be underestimating how easy it is to "swap" fluids from an infected person when you are in contact with even a small population of them in substandard medical or sanitary conditions. If Ebola was the story the journalist was working on, I'm not all that surprised.

As for the two medical workers treated and ultimately released from Atlanta hospitals, I'd bet they have no idea when they contracted the disease.

 

[cjh]

Youre fulla shit. MDs demand authorization from the insurance carrier, confirmation of Medicare Part B, or a cash deposit.

Not in most ERs.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)[1] is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals that accept payments from Medicare to provide emergency health care treatment to anyone needing it regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions. Participating hospitals may not transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment except with the informed consent or stabilization of the patient or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.[1]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Not in most ERs.



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act

You don't get around much.

 

[cjh]

You don't get around much.

That.

Or I've dealt with hospitals that tried to dump patients.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I think you may be underestimating how easy it is to "swap" fluids from an infected person when you are in contact with even a small population of them in substandard medical or sanitary conditions. If Ebola was the story the journalist was working on, I'm not all that surprised.

As for the two medical workers treated and ultimately released from Atlanta hospitals, I'd bet they have no idea when they contracted the disease.

Mysteries mean there's more to learn.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I see it all the time.

My apologies, you moved the goal posts and I didn't catch it. Shame on you for doing that and shame on me for not catching your usual intellectual dishonesty.

About Average clearly specified he was talking about Emergency Room doctors. Because you couldn't refudiate him, and not being man enough to admit that you couldn't refudiate him, you broadened the scope to include all doctors, then declared 'victory' like the spineless coward you are.

The simple fact of the matter is that emergency rooms cannot make payment a condition of treating emergency conditions and haven't been able to do so since before Reagan sold stinger missles to the Ayatollah.

Private, non-emergency doctors can insist on payment up front. That was never under discussion until your pathetic deflection attempt.

In summary, fuck you.

 

[lovecraft68]

I admit the death of the young girl in Cumberland RI has me concerned. One of those things you hear on the news and you're "Wow, that's bad, but that;s over there" then its over here and "Shit that's twenty minutes down the road"

 

[warrior queen]

I think you may be underestimating how easy it is to "swap" fluids from an infected person when you are in contact with even a small population of them in substandard medical or sanitary conditions. If Ebola was the story the journalist was working on, I'm not all that surprised.

Absolutely! In the clinic I went to (and ran from), I had to walk through the 'ward' to get to the treatment room, which doubled as the procedure room.
The 'ward' was about 20 metres long by 6 wide and had cot beds stacked along both walls with a coridor bedtween. Concrete floor. There were patients in every bed plus more on the floor between beds.
No glass in the windows... just cloth curtains.
The tretament room was a small cubicle with an old, stained hospital bed against one wall and a desk for the doctor opposite.
Everything was squalid and the smell was horrendous.

It was the doctor himself who suggested I NOT get treated by him and wait till I got back to a larger centre! Although he did come back out to the car with us and checked my leg to confirm I hadn't done any real damage (to tendons, etc) and I wasn't going to bleed to death.

Where was the clinic? In not-too-rural Kenya..... a country that I would have expected had better clinics than what I attended because it's more advanced than many other countries in that region of Africa.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Does a cough or sneeze contain fluids?



I've seem pictures of spray patterns that put a sawed-off shotgun to shame...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Does a cough or sneeze contain fluids?



I've seem pictures of spray patterns that put a sawed-off shotgun to shame...

How about a silent girl fart?