[yorkietalkjilly]

I prayed several times a day for Thomas Duncan until he died, his family and his caregivers still. You can care for the well-being and future of the people in a frightening and tragic situation and still be furious with some of their behavior, especially when it puts others at risk or accuses them of horribly inhuman behavior. They don't have to blame everyone else but Duncan.

I care that the family is publicly blaming his American doctors for his sickness and death. When he first got sick, a relative said he got Ebola from the American hospital! Now relatives are, even in the midst of their fresh grieving, taking the time to point fingers at American doctors for treating Duncan differently and unfairly because he is a black man and complaining that the medical staff didn't do enough for him. Right after the poor guy died, his family was already readily accusing American medical personnel of something absolutely dreadful.

Early misdiagnosis happens every day in emergency rooms the world over to every color patient and the hospital bears full moral and legal responsibility for that and any part it played in Duncan's death.

If the relatives really believe that accusation of racial bias in his treatment, why announce such vile accusations to the whole world? File complaints to the Texas Medical Board and any federal authority who oversee foreign travelers' safety/rights in America, letting the investigation of the case prove whether one or more of his treating physicians, the consultants at Presby, Emory University Hospital and CDC plus hospital administrators, solely or conspiratorially, withheld better treatment because they are racists. The ER physician made a grave medical mistake but no way I believe that epidemiology team that worked around the clock on him in strict isolation and wearing PPE suits, more than willing to risk their own lives to treat him, showed any racial bias in treating their gravely ill patient.

Haven't that family once wondered why Duncan or they didn't take on the responsibility of deciding he should stay put in Liberia until at least the epidemic had passed so as not to take the chance of infecting innocent kids? They all knew he was coming from a country where over half of the sick have died, where dying people still lie outside treatment centers, along the street curbs and that Ebola hasn't skipped any of the poor neighborhoods? And now they know he carried an unconscious woman in the midst of all of that misery, dying and death, yet he never ever thought she could possibly have it, too, and possibly have infected him? Seriously?!?!

I'm truly sorry for their fear and loss, wish them good health and heart peace, but how about taking some personal responsibility besides just pointing fingers at his dedicated, brave American medical team and making dreadful, public accusations about them?