I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

"The risk of Ebola to any one of us in the U.S., particularly those not involved in hands-on patient..."

“The risk of Ebola to any one of us in the U.S., particularly those not involved in hands-on patient care, is less than that of getting struck by lightning or eaten by a shark. With four cases out of a population of over 300 million, it may be less than the risk of the shark eating you [while] being struck by lightning. We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.”

- One Thing Doctors Want You to Know About Ebola

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