Monday, October 13, 2014

We're witnessing a slow motion societal medical emergency.

Listening to the news with one ear and the talk is of the briefing with the President and the CDC directors statement about the Nurse not following proper procedure when she dealt with the "index" patient.

What brought on the title of this blog post is something that I heard for the first time.

Regional Emergency Medical Centers designed to deal specifically with Ebola patients.

That sounds ominous to me.  Planning is actually going forward to deal with a widespread outbreak while they keep telling the American people that the situation is well in hand.

Sound planning?  No.  Proper planning would be to do everything to prevent an outbreak.  This sounds like a plan to deal with an inevitability.  What aren't we seeing from the CDC?  We're not seeing patients being rushed to the 4 treatment centers that are specialist in dealing with this disease.  If we can fly patients from Africa, then flying them from Dallas to Atlanta shouldn't be hard.

What is leadership thinking here?  What is the real deal that we're not being told?