First published in Respekt.
American doctor Patrick LaRochelle has been lying for eighteen days in a hermetically sealed biobox in Prague’s Bulovka hospital, waiting to see whether the deadly Ebola virus will appear. The only people who can approach him are doctors in special suits – and Respekt has now interviewed him.
This is his story.
Everything I need
“This window is a huge gift for me, even though I cannot go up to it, open it, and breathe in fresh air. After they brought me here, the blinds were closed and I was afraid I would not see sunlight for days. But when I woke up, I saw it, which was great – and it still is,” LaRochelle said, pointing to the outlines of the city beyond the glass, with the silhouette of the Žižkov TV tower.
