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Originally Posted by janmcn
It is now being reported on the news that the patient told the nurse that he was from Liberia when he presented with symptoms, but the doctors who treated him never got that information. How can this happen?
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Having not been there it is hard for me to judge what went down. I will say if the nurse forgot to tell the doctor this patient was from Liberia, when that doctor did their own history that info should have been obtained becaused it is medical school 101 to ask out of country travel questions to all patients that present with vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.