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Doctor Gets Emotional Recounting Ebola Patient’s Final Days, Efforts to Save Him

| October 21, 2014 Comment

Doctor Gets Emotional Recounting Ebola Patient’s Final Days, Efforts to Save Him – It’s been popular in the court of public opinion to condemn West African Thomas Eric Duncan for delivering Ebola to America’s doorstep. But a Texas doctor who tried to save the Ebola patient’s life doesn’t see it that way.

Dr. Gary Weinstein, a Dallas critical care physician who was with Duncan when he died on October 8th, said “I don’t think about it in terms of blame.” In a lengthy interview with Dallas’ WFAA-TV, Weinstein gets emotional when asked about detractors who said the hospital shorted Duncan’s care because he was black and uninsured.

Weinstein said, “I find that remarkably insulting, I don’t know how better to describe that. The team here worked their tails off trying to save his life.”

Despite trying an experimental medication, Weinstein said he ultimately knew Duncan might be too sick to survive. Weinstein said, “It was very, very quick. He was critically ill and unstable, and over a period of minutes, he lost his pulse and was dead.”

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