I read this column exclusive to The News with dismay and disbelief. I am saddened by the loss of his uncle, Thomas Duncan, but find it ironic that he demonizes Presbyterian Hospital with incompetence and insensitivity when it mounted an incredible effort to save him and spent most likely more than a million dollars on care that will never be paid.
I am a retired physician who cared for some of the first patients with HIV in the ’80s in Dallas. It was a plague.
There was much fear and misunderstanding. Very little was known.
Those of us who chose to treat them did so at our own risk, although it turned out that was low.
I can attest to the fact that things in emergency rooms all across this country fall through the cracks every hour of every day.
Fortunately, most of them do not result in deaths. This was ONE exception.
To his nephew, I would ask what level of care would he have received if he had remained in Liberia?
Robert Henderson, Dallas/ Turtle Creek