Ok, I’ve been at work all day.

But I”ve been getting pieces and bits on the newest Ebola case.

So I am a Microbiologist. I have worked in hospital labs for the past 10 years and I currently work here in NOLA. I lived in Dallas for 7 years. I worked in the big public hospital for 5-6 years then I worked for a sister hospital to Presby Dallas, and all I’m gonna say is Presby D has a reputation. I have a former coworker who had a job there PRN and he left within a month because of some issues he found with personnel and the limited experience of the techs working there.

So when the first case came, I always figured from jump that Presby dropped the ball the first time he came to hospital. the entire team that day, including nurses, PA, MDs etc failed arm Duncan that day and now that failure ended with his death and chickens are now coming home to roost.

The problem I had with this latest case was that the nurse knowingly travelled even after she absolutely came in contact with the Ebola patient , but now we find out that she actually called the CDC and they told her it was ok to fly??

What I now wonder if she was a buddy to the other nurse? A friend in DFW tells me the protocol at Presby is a buddy system. It should be the same as my current hospital protocol whis is also a buddy system. For the laboratory purposes, this means that there is a “clean” tech and a “dirty” tech.

the buddy system is supposed to work where one helps the other when it comes to taking off PPE and also the buddy tech is supposed to be paying attention as the “dirty” tech manipulates the specimen…ie they are supposed to be eye balling you and making sure that u aren’t scratching, rubbing head or mopping sweat.

And as you see they are taking the latest case to Emory instead of Presby Dallas and I’m pretty sure I know why.