Bellevue Hospital predictably had a case of “lab-coat flu” on Friday; Bellevue, the hospital hosting New York’s first Ebola patient. The isolation ward in particular was literally an “isolated” ward with many out “sick” or to traumatized to enter Doctors Without Borders Dr. Craig Spencer’s isolation chamber.
Come November, if the winds of November bring us a confluence of indistinguishable flu and Ebola, will a multiplicity doctors and nurses and other professionals and staffers decide it is time to retire or find other employment? If so, can any hospital remain sufficiently functional and profitable to remain open?
“He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap” (Ecclesiastes 11:4).
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