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(Chicago Sun-Times)   Due to one careless doctor, Chicago may be facing a tuberculosis outbreak. Choking is not a symptom, so the Cubs should be okay   (suntimes.com) divider line
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40oz_A_Knight
2009-04-11 12:12:25 PM  
FTA: She had worked for the past five months in an intensive care unit for newborns at Evanston Hospital, with children at Children's Memorial and in a unit for newborns at Northwestern Memorial's Prentice Women's Hospital.

Why is someone with a bad cough working in a neonatal ICU? You might as well have her work in a neutropenic suite and spit blood on the patients.
 
nugz4lunch
2009-04-11 12:16:43 PM  
"The doctor, a woman, was diagnosed Tuesday after she sought treatment for symptoms, Gerber said."

Um, it sounds to me like she got sick and sought treatment. How does this make her careless?
 
Podna
2009-04-11 12:20:04 PM  
Oh GOD it's Captain Tripps!!
 
Gameshot911
2009-04-11 12:22:45 PM  
Meh, the news has been kinda dry recently. Especially since the big hoopla over the recession/financial crisis is now pretty stale.

I think a nice contagious disease outbreak would spice things up nicely for a week or two.
 
The Great EZE
2009-04-11 12:25:29 PM  
The monkeys at Brookfield Zoo last seen hiding for their lives.

/...and Lincoln Park is a shiatzu.
//Damn filters
 
CrispFlows
2009-04-11 12:26:45 PM  
Excellent headline, subby. I love sucky sports team references.

+1
 
Wadded Beef [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-04-11 12:34:39 PM  

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: /Wanted for questioning.


Book it. Dumb.
 
Easy Mac
2009-04-11 12:35:57 PM  
wow just wow


/cubs suck

+1 subby
 
Bacontastesgood
2009-04-11 12:36:26 PM  

40oz_A_Knight: Why is someone with a bad cough working in a neonatal ICU?


You need to contact the hospital administrators with your inside knowledge that she "had a bad cough" while she was working the NICU. Apparently every staff member there was negligent for letting her work there in that condition.
 
eagles95
2009-04-11 12:36:39 PM  
After yesterday's choke job I enjoy this more..

/Brewers fan
//Does thank Cubs fans for buying our overpriced stadium beer and keeping us financially stable
 
CrazyFark
2009-04-11 12:37:44 PM  
Nowhere in the article did it say she was coughing or showing definite signs of TB. I'm certain that if a doctor-in-training was coughing up blood around babies, someone would have said something.

Irresponsible headline. Give her (and the medical staff of 3 hospitals who observed her) the benefit of the doubt. When she suspected something wrong, she got checked out.
 
onyxia
2009-04-11 12:42:50 PM  
TFA: But TB is not easily transmitted. "Tuberculosis is not a diseasespread by brief casual contact," said Dr. Stanford Shulman of Children's Memorial Hospital. "It really does require typically hours and hours and hours. CDC takes about 120 hours of face-to-face contact, that's why household contacts are most at risk."

I'm glad this isn't rank scare mongering or anything.
 
From_The_Year_2000
2009-04-11 12:44:07 PM  

CrispFlows: Excellent headline, subby. I love sucky sports team references.

+1


The joke is that the Cubs suck, and choke... but choking is not a symptom. So how is this a joke at all, let alone one that gets a plus one? This only makes sense if choking is proof that you don't have tuberculosis.

I love making fun of the Cubs. They suck. But don't praise a headline for essentially putting together random words and "Cubs" and "Choking."
 
Highway61Revisited
2009-04-11 12:44:25 PM  
Headline is way too harsh.

This poor pediatrics resident now finds herself as patient zero in a Chicago TB scare.

I'm sure what happened was that she developed symptoms, went to her personal physician and had a work-up that found her to have active TB. The latency period can be extremely long-- that is why they care about where she's been working over the past 5 months.

Judging solely from the info in this article, it seems to be unlikely that there was any carelessness on the resident's part.
 
Conqueror of Tubes
2009-04-11 12:48:30 PM  
midly sad, but it's probably a good thing it was just infants she was exposed to. infants have damn-near legendary immune systems, left over antibodies from mom + new system that fights everything.
 
mreuther
2009-04-11 12:50:32 PM  
It's too bad we don't have a vaccine for TB.
 
CrispFlows
2009-04-11 12:57:36 PM  

From_The_Year_2000: CrispFlows: Excellent headline, subby. I love sucky sports team references.

+1

The joke is that the Cubs suck, and choke... but choking is not a symptom. So how is this a joke at all, let alone one that gets a plus one? This only makes sense if choking is proof that you don't have tuberculosis.

I love making fun of the Cubs. They suck. But don't praise a headline for essentially putting together random words and "Cubs" and "Choking."


If you discern the headline as random words - you, buddy, need to get some reading comprehension classes.
 
Phlem Pickens
2009-04-11 1:08:24 PM  
A+ for the headline

/Go Cubs
//Get out of my infield
 
Drink_Outside_The_Box
2009-04-11 1:09:31 PM  
Cubs could choke on air.
 
GossipTrain
2009-04-11 1:11:15 PM  
Really reaching for that headline, subby. Better luck next time.
 
BoySchwen
2009-04-11 1:12:26 PM  

From_The_Year_2000: CrispFlows: Excellent headline, subby. I love sucky sports team references.

+1

The joke is that the Cubs suck, and choke... but choking is not a symptom. So how is this a joke at all, let alone one that gets a plus one? This only makes sense if choking is proof that you don't have tuberculosis.

I love making fun of the Cubs. They suck. But don't praise a headline for essentially putting together random words and "Cubs" and "Choking."


Way to read too much into this.
 
Optimal_Illusion
2009-04-11 1:12:40 PM  
Nobody wants Culosis of the Tuber.
 
Chinchillazilla
2009-04-11 1:39:21 PM  
Tuberculosis killed my stepmom's mom last year.

/it's okay though, she lived in Peru
//so no need to panic
 
Manta537
2009-04-11 1:58:19 PM  
GO *hack* *cough* CUBBIES!
 
Mongo cut wood
2009-04-11 2:31:38 PM  
Who you gonna call? Doc Holiday? Oh wait....
 
Man Going His Own Way
2009-04-11 2:43:20 PM  
Poor shedoctor. She has a belly slyt, so it's not really her fault.
 
xmasbaby
2009-04-11 3:03:26 PM  
It's been said before, but there's nothing in this article (or any of the other stories I've seen) to suggest this young resident acted carelessly or improperly.

She got sick, went to a doctor, got diagnosed with TB and is getting treatment. She has enough going on without the international snark community piling on. Yeah, I know this is FARK, but still... C'mon guys...
 
Somaticasual
2009-04-11 3:07:27 PM  
Folks, the risk of transmission from ONE exposure to TB is ridiculously low, assuming it was active for the entire period of time in the first place.

//and, FUD aside, we can cure most strains of TB these days. It's not a death sentence like the old days, just a lot of antibiotics.

//If it's XDR, we're all screwed, though.
 
DeathByGeekSquad
2009-04-11 3:17:50 PM  
Don't worry folks, CHM is on that shiat. They're the best of the three hospitals listed. They'll save everyone!
 
The1andonlyZack
2009-04-11 5:24:30 PM  
Good stuff subby....bad stuff doc.
 
cmb53208
2009-04-11 7:47:25 PM  
Don't worry Chicago, all those red light cameras Mayor Daley put up will keep you safe from this scourge!
 
PoeGhost
2009-04-11 11:18:43 PM  
Ouch, that's a zinger.

Good job subby, even if I am a Cubs fan.
 
bretticus
2009-04-12 12:39:50 AM  

mreuther: It's too bad we don't have a vaccine for TB.

It's not very good.

Most, if not all, healthcare workers are required to get a yearly PPD, so I'd imagine it would be pretty tough to be "careless."
  
Lyllydd
2009-04-12 7:09:19 PM  

CrazyFark: Nowhere in the article did it say she was coughing or showing definite signs of TB. I'm certain that if a doctor-in-training was coughing up blood around babies, someone would have said something.

Irresponsible headline. Give her (and the medical staff of 3 hospitals who observed her) the benefit of the doubt. When she suspected something wrong, she got checked out.


Er, in Illinois, anybody who saw her hacking up a lung around newborns would probably just walked on by. What's more, this white-coated monkey waited 5 months to get checked out. Not like she could get sued or anything.

I've been a victim of health care in IL, and believe me, in this state truckers aren't the only ones who get their licenses in exchange for bribes. I've gotten better care at the emergency room than I have from 12 MDs in 13 years. Somehow I'm just not surprised at any medical horror stories in this state anymore.
 
Cyno01
2009-04-12 8:24:17 PM  
Yeah, my sister was @ that hospital having surgury in november... she hasnt recieved any contact from the hospital yet, she had to read about it in the paper.
 
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