Do you trust health care providers who have worked with ebola to self monitor?

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24. Not by themselves

First medical people tend to be awful patients. They tend to ignore what they don't want to hear because they know best.

Secondly, as repeated evidence shows having a medical checklist drastically improves health outcomes and reduces medical error. But nobody wants to admit they are perfect. As a study at John Hopkins showed, doctors failed 33% of the time to follow the checklist for putting a line in a patient. Nobody is perfect. Expecting medical staff to treat themselves perfectly is silly. It's why when I had my first knee surgery to remove a growth that was visible through the skin, the doctor still wrote on my leg with me awake to sign off before surgery.

Third, if a doctor or other medical staff shouldn't treat family or friends, they also shouldn't treat themselves for the same reasons.

Fourth, while the risk of transmission is very low, the public has unfortunately not gotten that memo and so additional precautions need to be taken. We have people who in theory should be serious educated individuals (okay, admittedly working with Ted Cruz doesn't exactly scream serious or educated) "jokingly" linking ebola and the ACA. Somebody has to be calm, reassure the public and if that means taking some precautions that aren't strictly speaking necessary, then that is what it takes.