Melomiri

Reborn in the ER: The Day I Locked Down the Hospital

Language: en

In my fifth year as an attending physician in the Emergency Department at City General, my life was destroyed by four college kids fresh off a graduation trip to Africa. It was a sweltering summer night, and the ER lobby was boiling with noise. The guy leading the group rolled up his sleeve, pointed to a cluster of purplish-red blood blisters on his forearm, and winked at me. Beside him, his three friends held up their phones, stifling their laughter as they narrated to their live stream. "Doc, I just got off the plane. This is pure, unadulterated African Ebola. Aren't you going to rush…

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