The emergency room doctor who mistakenly sent home the first domestic Ebola patient says he believes Thomas Eric Duncan got "appropriate" care for what appeared to be a sinus infection. The Dallas Morning News tracked down Dr. Joseph Howard Meier, the emergency room doctor who examined Duncan the first time he came into Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas for treatment. The hospital sent Duncan home after giving him Tylenol and a prescription for an antibiotic. Duncan came back two days later to be diagnosed with Ebola, and died from the virus. Meier, interviewed in writing via a lawyer, told the newspaper he did his best based on the information he had at the time.
