Friday, July 06, 2007
TB patient questions CDC's actions - USATODAY.com
re: "ATLANTA — The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health incident in May said Friday he was tricked into a federal quarantine./Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney, he would have gladly gone into isolation if health officials had asked him to. Instead, he said they asked him to swing by a New York City hospital for testing after his European vacation, then posted armed guards outside his door..."...
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I worked as an ER RN in a PHS/Indian Health Hospital in rural AZ. TB patients were never given a bottle of their own meds & told-"go home & take your meds"- oh no, instead, due to the virulence of the disease, and the high percentage of non-compliance, the meds were left in the ER dept., and patients had to come in each day to be given their drugs by licensed medical personnel. If they did not come in voluntarily, the police were sent to their residence to BRING them in. If they continued to be non-compliant, they were taken into custody until their treatment was completed. I find it hard to believe that Mr. Speaker's father-in-law was not sufficiently educated about this issue to warn his son-in-law. He was tricked into quarantine? Give me a break- the man plain & simple just didn't think the rules applied to him. I think, instead, that those poor unaware travel companions were the ones "tricked".
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