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In the article, “Texas Hospital Apologizes for 'Mistakes' in Ebola Treatment in Full-Page Ad” explains that the two nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, who had caught Ebola wrote a letter apologizing for making “mistakes.” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital admitted that they had made mistakes when handling the difficult challenge, but argues that their “training and education programs had not been fully deployed before the virus struck.” This proves the hospital was trying to cover up their mistakes with arguments, the letter even said, “Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is a safe place for employees and patients,” trying to insure that employees don’t quit, and patients still come for medical help.
Analysis:
I agree that it was the right thing to do to write a letter of apology, but I disagree with their excuses for why they messed up.The hospital should have taken more extreme measures to make sure the Ebola disease did not spread in the United States. This article reminded me of the Swine Flu because everyone freaked out and was scared of getting sick, which is what’s happening currently with Ebola. I feel that the right measures were taken to form an apology, but the wrong measures were taken to prevent an apology ever being needed.
Discussion Questions:
- What do you think the hospital could have done to prevent the two nurses from getting infected?
- Do you agree that the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is a safe place for patients and employees? Why?
- In your opinion, what is the best way doctors could prevent a total outbreak of Ebola?
I think the nurses at the hospital could have worn more protective gear and had been more cautious around the patients. Maybe they should have gotten check ups once in a while to make sure they are still not infected from being around the patients with the disease. Doctors need to find a cure for Ebola that will work on everyday ill patient. They should be given funds for research.
ReplyDeleteI agree also that writing the apology letter was right. I think the hospital could have given everyone working with Duncan more protective gear when they were treating him so the disease didn't spread. I think the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital is indeed safe, but they need to be more cautious when it comes to contagious diseases that people would rather not have spread. I think doctors can prevent the outbreak of ebola by containing patients in solitary confinement until the disease is terminated.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hospital in Texas is a safe place for patients. I think that the nurses developed the disease due to their own carelessness which has nothing to do with the hospital. I believe that the nurses are making up excuses to cover up their own mistakes. Obviously if the hospital is a well working hospital that helps ill patients, they provide efficient training to their staff and is not in any way a threat to patients or employees.
ReplyDeleteI think that the doctors need to be more cautious when it comes down to the disease Ebola. Doctors should isolate the patient who had gotten effected (which they are) until they are fully recovered so there is not a risk of an outbreak. I also think that the doctors should contact the people who the patient was around before they got effected and isolate them as well until they are tested clean. There is no joking around with Ebola since more than half the people that got it died.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you grace.I thinkit was right to write an apolgy and i aso disagree with the excuses for why they messed up. The hospital needed much more better ways to prevent Ebola to make sure it did not spread to the US. The doctors should be more catiuous around patients
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, preventing a total outbreak of Ebola is extremely difficult when we are still unsure of a cure. But, if doctors continue to step up and do their jobs, it would be way less likely, and we could continue to learn about finding a solution.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the hospital should have put all members who worked on the Ebola case into quarantine so the disease wouldn't spread. I don't believe it's safe because people could get Ebola and die.
ReplyDeleteI think it was the nurses should have been more careful and it is their faults that they were infected. The hospital is not a safe place because they might infect other patients. Doctors could prevent an outbreak by treating ebola patients in separated places.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is the two nurses fault that they got Ebola, I guess that the Hospital should have equipped the nurses with the proper gear. I think the Hospital is no longer safe, they need to close the Hospital down, check everyone that is in it from patients to employees. The doctors could prevent an Ebola outbreak by the Doctors not go home and only work on the one Ebola patients until they die or get cured.
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