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Ebola: Are Community Hospitals Up to the Task? With the announcement that a nurse in Dallas contracted Ebola while caring for an infected patient in a community hospital, calls are increasing to treat the disease only in centers specializing in treatment of highly contagious and highly virulent diseases.Unneeded Stress Tests Too Common. Cardiac stress tests done with imaging have risen substantially and more than a third appeared inappropriate.Nurses Outraged by Blame Game. “They threw the nurses under the bus. And when they admitted that it was not the nurses’ fault, there was no apology.”Ebola: Infection Control Needs Rethink. CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, acknowledged that the case of a Dallas healthcare worker who developed Ebola “does change substantially how we address” efforts to prevent additional infections.
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