CONFIRMED: Fort Worth Alcon Rep Admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with Ebola Symptoms: Is He the Nurse’s Boyfriend?
October 14, 2014
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On the anonymous medical device rep message board Medtechy someone posted a letter from (allegedly) Alcon saying that one of their employees (their Fort Worth associate allegedly Darren Schreder) was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with potential symptoms of the Ebola virus. The same hospital where the nurse contracted Ebola; and now it’s being reported that the nurse’s boyfriend was admitted with Ebola symptoms. My hope is that someone posted this to alert people to the possibility of the outbreak spreading much more quickly and not as a hoax to be an asshole (because reps are never assholes.) Reps are in many hospitals and doctor’s offices a day.
Updated: A source familiar with the hospital says that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had 60 cases on the board (or scheduled) for the week and all the cases but three are canceled, rescheduled or moved to other facilities. This means people do not want to have surgery at the hospital right now.
From the other industry anonymous rep message board Cafepharma
Alcon rep is reported to be a contract specialist
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Dallas hospital stumbles in early response to Ebola USA Today
Nurse gets Ebola. The latest development is that Pham, who was caring for Duncan during his second hospital visit, contracted the Ebola virus, even though she was wearing protective gear such as gloves, gown and mask. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is still investigating exactly what led to her being infected.
Ebola Nurse Boyfriend Admitted With Ebola Symptoms
Pastor Jim
Yeah, all kinds of stories are “breaking” in the DFW media right now. Apparently it’s not just the patients who are avoiding Presby, but also the docs. There was a brief mention on their local news last night of other hospitals in the metromess being swamped with surgeries originally scheduled at the “Ebola Hospital” as the Dallas Morning News terms it. Even their ER is quiet now.
I read the other night where John Cleese, who’s 74 now, was asked his feeling on growing older and he commented he was looking forward to dying because it would be pleasant to not have to hear so much about ISIS and Ebola. I had to laugh. He’s right.
Melayna Lokosky
The CDC really screwed up and should have had feet on the street the minute they knew or even suspected Ebola entered the Country. So glad the ethically challenged Zuckerberg just gave the ethically challenged CDC $25 million-I’m sure they’ll have a cure for Ebola tomorrow now-Phew Facebook CEO saves the day! Amazing that some in the DFW area were covering it all day yesterday and no one on the national level until this morning. Lack of transparency creates concern and the CDC is again to blame.
I’d initially thought the US Ebola case was a non-story sensationalized by the media until the death and national news not picking up on the latest stories. And now a 1st-grader in Scottsdale just died of a respiratory infection and health officials telling parents not to panic and to keep their kids in that school. How about the emotional element that six-year olds just lost a classmate on an aside from even the viral concerns? Common sense is lost from “officials” on all fronts.