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TwilightGardener

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20. It's not a matter of "faulting" nurses, it's just that I watch the news (if these nurses had,

Reply to merrily (Reply #19)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:18 AM

Oct 2014

they'd have seen many well-protected health workers and doctors, experts on ebola, contracting the disease and should have thought, hey, that could easily happen to me! no matter what the CDC or their administrators told them)--also I've been through a sort of self-imposed quarantine before on blood/body fluids as a result of a needle stick injury with a Hepatitis C patient. Snyderman is a selfish dingbat who should be fired as a medical correspondent, she's lost all authority and credibility.

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Question for DUers, especially doctors and nurses. [View all] MoonRiver Oct 2014 OP

No. I wouldn't. nt littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #1

No (nt) bigwillq Oct 2014 #2

Denial is a very primal human strategy. So my answer today might be very different KittyWampus Oct 2014 #3

Though I quit nursing 21 years ago (with the birth of my kids) etherealtruth Oct 2014 #4

No.. likesmountains 52 Oct 2014 #5

I probably would have trusted YarnAddict Oct 2014 #6

Well, I just want to say, MoonRiver Oct 2014 #8

In 1992 littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #7

Wow, so absolutely nothing has changed since then! MoonRiver Oct 2014 #10

I love caregivers, including this poor soul who has been exposed to ebola merrily Oct 2014 #13

I think we're on the same wavelength: Sheldon Cooper Oct 2014 #9

yes we are MoonRiver Oct 2014 #11

Trying to exonerate the CDC? Why? She may have been too ill to think clearly. merrily Oct 2014 #12

Don't know why you think I am exonerating the CDC. I am definitely not doing that. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #14

If what the CDC told her should have been irrelevant to her, how is that not merrily Oct 2014 #15

No, I don't know anything about all that. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #17

In reality, you have no clue what you would have done in her shoes because you don't know the merrily Oct 2014 #18

Yes, I do indeed have a clue. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #23

No--to agree to care for a patient like Duncan is to accept that you might be TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #16

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who was also exposed, and was put into "voluntary quarantine" went to merrily Oct 2014 #19

It's not a matter of "faulting" nurses, it's just that I watch the news (if these nurses had, TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #20

Saying or implying that the nurse should have ignored the CDC is faulting the nurse. merrily Oct 2014 #21

The question was, what would I, as a (former) nurse, have done. TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #22

No. But then, with my microbiology background, if I'd been working with Ebola in scary substandard kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #24