This is the story of an American doctor who was consulting with a hospital in Monrovia Liberia about general emergency management issues when the hospital’s first Ebola patient turned up in the emergency department. This was a hospital completely unprepared for Ebola. Over the next 40 minutes, the American doctor tells a detailed and gripping story about how he and his Liberian colleagues worked desperately to isolate and treat the extremely ill patient without infecting themselves or others. Unfortunately, their efforts weren’t enough. And as has been the case with so many health care workers, most of the medical staff on hand that day caught Ebola and died a few weeks later.
