The Dallas ER physician WAS provided Duncan's travel history.

[kestrel91316]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/us/containing-ebola-cdc-troops-west-africa.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

"......On Thursday, the hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, released a statement essentially blaming a flaw in its electronic health records system for its decision to send the patient — Thomas E. Duncan, a Liberian national visiting his girlfriend and relatives in the United States — home the first time he visited its emergency room, Sept. 25. It said there were separate “workflows” for doctors and nurses in the records so the doctors did not receive the information that he had come from Africa........"

".....But on Friday evening, the hospital effectively retracted that portion of its statement, saying that “there was no flaw” in its electronic health records system. The hospital said “the patient’s travel history was documented and available to the full care team in the electronic health record (E.H.R.), including within the physician’s workflow.”

UH OH. Malpractice lawsuit slam dunk.

[valerief]

1. Texas malpractice

Texas places a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages for all doctors and other individual healthcare providers. There is also a $250,000 non-economic damages cap placed on each hospital. In total, for all hospitals and other institutions, there is a $500,000 non-economic damages cap. This means that if you file suit against a doctor, the most you can try to claim for non-economic damages is $250,000, while the most you can claim from any one hospital is $250,000 as well.

Although many of these cases do settle, your claim may take months if not years to resolve. Be prepared to wait a long time for a resolution should you decide to file a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit.

http://www.attorneys.com/medical-malpractice/texas/texas-medical-malpractice-basics/

[uppityperson]

2. Huh. Thank you for the notice. I wonder what the patient load was, how many

patients they had for what staff.

Someone had to be first to make this mistake, now that it has been made I hope everyone else has learned.