And the hospital has acknowledged that was a colossal fuckup, so...

Truth. Triage exists for a reason. When I go to the ER and sit for 2h cause I need an Rx for antibiotics, I understand that the reason I am waiting is that I'm not about to die from my shitty sinus infection, and some people going ahead of me might just die from whatever the fuck is wrong with them.

Hi. At different points in my career, I have worked as a paramedic and an ER nurse. So I have not one, but two giant fuck you's for this woman if she deliberately misled responders in hopes of getting her sister seen faster. ER wait times suck, but not as much as wondering who'll take care of your kids or pay your…

That's the reason why emergency rooms have triage. The people that are honestly more sick and in more dire situations are seen first, as they should be.

If you're waiting hours to be seen, it's because there are people there considerably more sick than you. I had a massive pulmonary embolism 4 years ago (as in really lucky to be alive massive). Getting taken fast by the emergency room means you are potentially critically ill & is scary as shit. That wait, while…

If her sister is THAT sick, she wouldn't have waited that long to be seen. And if she wasn't that sick, then she doesn't NEED to get seen that fast. There's no excuse for this at all.

In Canada, when someone needs a helicopter rescue from the water or ice, it is determined whether the rescue was "unnecessary" meaning that the person should not have been there in the first place, and if that is determined, they send you the bill. Same thing should happen here. I'm not talking about dissuading people…

She should have to pay for all of the wasted PPE at bare minimum.

I hope there's some kind of fine or other penalty they can assess against her. Filing a false police report is a crime; maybe there's some similar law for false 911 calls.

Couple months in jail sounds good IMO.

What an idiot. I hope she's charged with making a false report or mischief or something.

"...complaining that her sister had a fever of 107 degrees."

I see your point, but I think both the nurse and the media are culpable. The nurse knew she was involved in treatment of a disease that is getting (too much) media coverage, and she contributed to the media frenzy by doing something dumb. There seems to have been very little thought on her part other than, "I don't…

You're giving a lot of nurses a lot more credit than they deserve. I've been a nurse for over 2 decades and while most have the "smarts" to pass the nursing boards, the lack of common sense most have rivals a 10 year old boy with a lighter and fireworks inside the house. Common sense cannot be taught. This nurse,…

Well being a nurse and all, I'd assume she would realize "Oh Golly, I don't feel well. Maybe it's not the best idea for me to spend 2hrs in a metal tube w/ a bunch of people!". But again that would mean inconveniencing her slightly, and it would be much better to possibly spread a disease than have someone sit out a…

There is a huge spectrum of knowledge and performance between nurses. I've met nurses that knew their shit and could be calling the shots. I've also met nurses with about as much medical knowledge as someone that rolled in off the street. The variance is frightening.

I agree 100%. I have no sympathy for the nurse.

This woman is a NURSE. She seems to be suffering from an extreme lack of common sense. She just treated a patient who died of Ebola; she's not exactly the kind of person they're probably trained to interact with at the 1-800-DO-I-HAVE-EBOLA hotline at the CDC. And did she really feel that relying on their…

Everyone around her sounds like a moron, but here's my main Beef, she is a nurse. One would think someone w a degree in nursing would know better than to take some of the risk she took. I'm not saying she and her co worker shouldn't be able to go about their normal lives, I just wish they would've used more discretion…