Returning MD from Treating Ebola on Modified Isolation

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Specializes in L&D, Women's Health.

She is too, she's out taking bike rides.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141031/us-ebola-nurse-quarantined-maine-24342638b1.html

"The County has instructed Bucks to stay away from work and away from close contact with others for 21 days. The health directive allows Bucks limited activity outside of his home, such as jogging alone."

“During that time, Dr. Bucks will reside alone and will be monitored by state and county health department personnel. In addition, per Stanford Medicine policy, Dr. Bucks may not return to the workplace for 21 days,” Stanford Health Care said in a statement."

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His "reasonable" restrictions are the same ones Kaci Hickox is refusing to abide by.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

Notice that he wasn't detained for more than 6 hours at the airport and then transported against his will to an isolation tent at anytime.

He should be able to go where he pleases and do what he pleases with whom ever he pleases until there is a symptomatic emergence which may signal the beginning of a contagious phase. He is more than qualified to monitor his own symptoms.

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