Just the fact that the hospital violated her privacy - she didn’t want her name released and thought she hadn’t authorized it - should make this one a slam-dunk case. I for one hope it is, and that she never has to work a day in her life again unless she wants to. That whole thing was a major-league cluster#$%^. :mad:
She is still experiencing lasting effects from her illness, and possibly from the drugs, experimental and otherwise, used to treat it. 
I have to agree with her - just the loss of privacy and the utter INVASION of privacy. Reporters were chasing her poor grandmother around trying to get a statement.
And then, there’s the small matter of the hospital protocol that somehow allowed her to wind up with ebola, despite being gloved and gowned.
I think they’ll wind up settling out of court - with a gag order - and very quickly.
This is a podcast featuring three of the nurses who cared for the Ebola patients who were treated at Emory (and this included the other Dallas nurse). This place sounds like the polar opposite of Texas Presbyterian; everything sounded incredibly professional and they did everything right, which included preserving the privacy of the patients. They do discuss individual patients, regarding things that the patients themselves said in the press, and they do talk about Dr. Crozier more than all the others put together; however, it may have been because overall, he needed more care than the other patients put together. He’s the “unidentified WHO physician” who came forward a few months later.
Remember when Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol (who, along with her husband, returned to Africa last weekend :eek:) were admitted and reported several days later to be “improving” and then there was no further information for quite a while? I was personally skeptical as to how “improving” was defined, until I saw the news conferences when they were discharged. I also suspect that had they known that their stories would generate ongoing worldwide headlines, they would have remained anonymous; they allowed their names to be released because they thought it would be a blip on the news and that would be it, regardless of the ultimate outcomes.
This story showed her donating plasma, for research purposes, and her husband is a participant in the vaccine trial. I sure wish them the best.
Obligatory Onion article:
Nurse Being Treated For Ebola Impressed With Health Workers’ New Gear
Some of the more recent Onion stories have gone a little bit too far, IMNSHO.
I found a podcast on You Tube of Dr. Brantly giving a talk at a Christian school in Atlanta, probably within the past week or so; he was most likely back for a checkup, and he said that his sister and BIL had taught there in the past and when he was teenager, he went to a basketball camp at that school. He said, “I don’t think I’m here just because I went to basketball camp” and in addition almost looks like he’s starting to get a little pudgy. Considering that he was seriously underweight when he left the hospital (honestly, he looked like one of those late-stage AIDS patients you used to see around 
) maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.
The American Ebola story isn’t over. Another U.S. citizen has been diagnosed, this time in Sierra Leone, and will be flown back tomorrow, also to be treated at the NIH.
A British citizen also contracted it at the same place and time, and is being sent to London.
I also found out that all treatment at the NIH is given at no cost to the patient, because it’s a research hospital. Presumably, Ms. Pham’s health insurance and/or worker’s compensation won’t be billed either. Yes, it’s taxpayer money but it’s taxpayer money I personally don’t mind spending.