On Ebola, preparation no substitute for experience, says THR CEO Barclay Berdan

In September, Barclay Berdan became CEO of Texas Health Resources, the largest healthcare system in North Texas with over $4.3 billion in revenue last year. Berdan, who previously served as THR's COO, took over just before a crisis erupted in October at the system's flagship hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, when a patient named Thomas Eric Duncan, who had recently arrived from Liberia, arrived at the emergency department showing symptoms consistent with Ebola. Modern Healthcare editor Merrill Goozner recently spoke with Berdan about the crisis. See an edited version of their discussion here.