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Expert: Dallas hospital did things right - and wrong

Posted on AllSides October 16th, 2014
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Doctors and nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas caring for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan did many things right, including donning proper equipment early, isolating the patient and meticulously disposing of soiled sheets and other waste.

But they also took potentially lethal risks, like peeling off gloves and gowns without proper supervision and connecting Duncan to a dialysis machine while he was in the throes of the virus, said Pierre Rollin, an Ebola specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who is consulting the hospital in its...

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