Partially truthful. Saying you've recently been in Liberia should have been enough to get a response. When it didn't get a response, adding that he had had direct contact/exposure to an Ebola patient who died would have gotten a response. Speak loud enough and you'll probably clear the waiting room. He may not have been a medical professional, but he was probably the person in that ER with the most Ebola experience and he allowed them to send him home with an anti-b prescription.

The patient screwed up and put people at risk by not being fully open and honest. The medical staff screwed up by not being more suspicious of his history and asking the hard questions. Plenty of blame to pass around... but that's just my opinion too.

How many times did we hear House say, (paraphrasing) -- "People lie."