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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFree of Ebola but not fear: Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Presby parent
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Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease.
The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola.
I wanted to believe that they would have my back and take care of me, but they just havent risen to the occasion, Pham told The Dallas Morning News last week in an exclusive interview.
Read more: http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
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Free of Ebola but not fear: Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Presby parent (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Mar 2015
OP
Yesterday I listened to a post on D.U. it was an interview with a man who said that our CDC is not
midnight
Mar 2015
#2
Well, they deserve it. They didn't prepare her or her colleagues properly.
TwilightGardener
Mar 2015
#6
KMOD
(7,906 posts)1. Nina Pham was the one willing to run into the fire.
She is, and will always be a hero to me.
midnight
(26,624 posts)2. Yesterday I listened to a post on D.U. it was an interview with a man who said that our CDC is not
providing our nurses with masks that our protecting them from this virus. I would post was taken down by author.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017248617
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. Good luck to her. I hope she wins.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. K&R!
I hope she gets the help she needs.
Mopar151
(9,997 posts)5. The way our society treats heroes is a crying shame.
They are the best of us. Treated poorly by the worst of us - the faceless managers and naysayers, who worship Ayn Rand and send money to teevee preachers and killer cops.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)6. Well, they deserve it. They didn't prepare her or her colleagues properly.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)7. Incredible Story..Well Written..Long, Worth Reading.
Dallas Moring News, does a fine job of showing total incompetence at the hospital, "Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas"