The Doctors Without Borders nurse who didn't like the way the U.S. authorities treated her upon arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Kaci Hickox tells the story from her perspective, and it's getting a lot of attention. I'd like to hear the story told from the perspective of the authorities who are said to have treated her with not just an abundance of caution but with disrespect and outright abuse. You should read the whole thing, but I'll quote the part that made me wonder what really happened:

Four hours after I landed at the airport, an official approached me with a forehead scanner. My cheeks were flushed, I was upset at being held with no explanation. The scanner recorded my temperature as 101.

The female officer looked smug. “You have a fever now,” she said.

I explained that an oral thermometer would be more accurate and that the forehead scanner was recording an elevated temperature because I was flushed and upset....

Eight police cars escorted me to the University Hospital in Newark. Sirens blared, lights flashed. Again, I wondered what I had done wrong....

The infectious disease and emergency department doctors took my temperature and other vitals and looked puzzled. “Your temperature is 98.6,” they said. “You don't have a fever but we were told you had a fever.”

After my temperature was recorded as 98.6 on the oral thermometer, the doctor decided to see what the forehead scanner records. It read 101. The doctor felts [sic] my neck and looked at the temperature again. “There’s no way you have a fever,” he said. “Your face is just flushed.”

Why — before the blood test results — would the doctor feel her neck with his bare hands? What is the protocol? Either we're swinging from one extreme to another on how much to isolate people who've been in the proximity of ebola, or different officials and health-care workers have different ideas about the degree of isolation. Health-care workers have a personal self-interest in remaining free citizens, and they may lean — like Dr. Craig Spencer — toward feeling confident that as long as they don't have a fever they can go about the city — bowling, etc. — like anybody else. Others — those with political accountability/vulnerability — lean toward the crowd-pleasing Theater of Extreme Precaution.