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1) Emergency rooms are frequently too busy to establish a correct diagnosis. This certainly has been true with other infectious diseases. (I frequently see patients with sepsis sent out of the ER, only to return the next day.) Sick patients may stay in the waiting room for considerable periods of time, and be placed in rooms with other patients before a diagnosis of Ebola is entertained. The problem that arose at the Dallas hospital ER will likely be repeated many times.
Editor's NoteIn some ways, we never know what we’re going to get, with certain years taking on themes that can be tricky to predict: One year might involve a lot of mutilation, another psychedelia, another wicked family drama. In other ways, we very much know what to expect: Every year will bring stories that make the members of the judging team wince, moan, LOL and say versions of “WTF?!” to no one in particular.
Al Franken recently raised a provocative question about Donald Trump: Is he mentally ill? On HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last week, the Minnesota senator claimed that some of his Republican colleagues have “great concern about the president’s temperament,” adding that “there’s a range in what they’ll say, and some will say that he’s not right mentally.
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