85% of all problems (ie Ebola)

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A nurse working for Doctors without Borders is restrained for seven hours without being told why. After almost a day of airplane food, and then no food and water in Newark Airport, she is given junk food - one Granola bar. Obviously she is hot under the collar. Even prisoners get bread and water. At least prisioners know why they are there. After four hours of this, an adult, whose knowledge is that of a child, takes her temperature. Without any training. Claims the nurse has an elevated temperature. Now panic sets in with more adults who can only act like children due to management that is clearly incompetent.

More panic. After seven hours of doing nothing (not even calling a doctor) they rush her at high speed to a hospital in a convoy of eight police cars with flashing lights and screaming sirens. No problem. They waited for politicians to make a decision.

A doctor takes her temperature. 98 degrees. No fever. Lab tests confirm no Ebola virus. Makes no difference. An adult who was incompetent due to management's training created a bogus number. All facts from responsible sources said something completely different. But management is doing what any business school graduate would do. More panic. She is still in quarantine.

Adults acting like children have created virtually all domestic Ebola problems - both real and fictional. With hype of fear of a disease that, well, worry more about lightning or a shark attack.

Ebola is hype and fear due to so many adults who entertain their childhood brain rather than use the prefrontal cortex. Ebola is a potential problem similar to nuclear war and asteroids that will destroy the earth. We know how to avert an epidemic. But even management in Texas Presbyterian Hospital acted like children trained by business schools.

We know, without doubt, that 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Doctors - and not business school graduates trained in hospital administration - should manage health care facilities. Texas Presbyterian Hospital only demonstrates what everyone should have learned from the Challenger, Chernobyl, and other less publicized disasters.

In Texas, nurses spent hours searching the internet to learn how to treat a Liberian with Ebola. Because hospital management was clearly doing what W Edward Deming said is taught in business schools. Or what George Jr did as president. Or what Governor Corbett of Pennsylvania did when, as Attorney General, he had Sandusky on tape soliciting children for sex. Management's job is attitude and knowledge. How the work gets done. The job is far more important than spin or politics. Training does not happen when costs controls and management appearance are more important.

In Texas, overalls that left exposed backside skin were used because that was only what was available in West Africa. Eventually, staff figured out that even full face shields (not available in Africa) were necessary. It took time for health care workers to do their jobs, treat other patients, and do internet searches. Hospital management had no idea how to discover what was necessary and what guidelines said. It was too medical for management.

An Ebola infected Liberian lay in their Emergency Room hallway suffering from dehydration, diarrhea, and fever while doctors treated adjacent patients. He lay there untreated near other patients for seven hours. Same management trained staff had sent him home with a fever days earlier due to lack of information – that management is suppose to provide. Same management trained staff used West Africa protection (where necessary supplies and facilities do not exist). Staff did what they learned on the internet because management had no idea how to learn something medically new. Even CDC guidelines were too medical for Texas Presbyterian management.

How dumb (business school trained) was Texas Presbyterian management? Ebola cultures were sent to labs via pneumatic tubes. Eventually, hospital staff - starved for useful information - began using too many layers of protection. No standard protection existed. Nobody had a partner so that mistakes could be averted. Hospital staff did exactly what one would expect when management does not come from where the work gets done.

Hype and fear takes hold. Both infected nurses in Texas were removed from incompetent Texas Presbyterian by the CDC. Meanwhile, a state dominated by extremist politicians is not even reviewing competency and licenses of this hospital. Doing so might be politically incorrect or embarrassing.

Ebola is understood by learning from Fukishima, Three Mile Island, Katrina, and how Corbett, et al all but blamed Joe Paterno for Sandusky’s pedophilia. Disasters are mostly due to management that is incompetent - that is promoted or trained using concepts taught in those schools. And not by people who know what is more important: how the work gets done.

In each case, panic and fear is traceable to management so extremist dumb as to 1) not train their people, 2) did not know how to avert problems, 3) could not understand what employees kept saying was needed, 4) could not learn something new, and 5) who did not know management's #1 job is providing attitude and knowledge.

Management that use feelings rather than grasp facts using intelligence is a classic example of adults who are still children. They are the major reason Ebola is a threat to any of us.

She worked for Doctors without Borders. They so hated such good people as to not even feed her. I would not be surprised if she was denied bathroom privileges - due to fear and ignorance created by management in Newark. Ebola spread because management in Texas did what any adult who is still a child would do. Nothing. Leaving people, who do the work, to fend for themselves.

Fear business school trained management - not Ebola. Ebola is a threat due to so many incompetent managers who are experts at cost controls and spin. And who do not know how the work gets done. They could not even train her in how to take body temperature.