Two Thoughts On A Rainy Day

[chris_gerrib]

Thought #1 - Ebola

The writer Elizabeth Moon is dead-on (pardon the pun) about Ebola and the US response thereto. Her six lessons are:

1) A stitch in time saves nine. the time to prepare is before the excrement hits the air-moving unit.
2) Hubris kills. Incorrectly thinking you're ready can be worse then not being ready.
3) Privatisation is no

Comments

[daveon]

As my mate Bill, whom you met in London, has been telling me, Community Hospitals will spell the doom of America eventually. They're just not equipped to handle serious medical situations and they kid themselves they are.

This is yet another area where a fragmented private system is inferior to a co-ordinated one. Not to say that the NHS couldn't have a process collapse but at least around London they've got their nominated infectious disease specialist hospitals ready to go.

Apparently there's been some disagreement in Seattle. The University Hospital and Harborview are the obvious specialist hospitals who can cope but there seems to be some overly macho pissing contents going on between some of the other hospitals to prove how competent they are.

Apparently based on an exercise they tried last week, at least one of them is not.