--- title: Ebola Doctor Craig Spencer Out of New York Hospital description: Spencer is third patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. and survive canonical: https://time.com/3576871/ebola-doctor-new-york/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-10T22:32:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:20:53.562Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Doctor Craig Spencer Out of New York Hospital og:description: Spencer is third patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. and survive og:url: https://time.com/3576871/ebola-doctor-new-york/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Doctor Craig Spencer Out of New York Hospital twitter:description: Spencer is third patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. and survive twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ebola Doctor Out of New York Hospital by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 10, 2014 10:32 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 10, 2014 10:32 PM UTC New York City’s Ebola patient is now free of the disease. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, a physician with Doctors Without Borders, will be released from Bellevue Hospital Center on Tuesday morning, [the New York _Times_ reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/nyregion/craig-spencer-new-york-doctor-with-ebola-will-leave-bellevue-hospital.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews®ion=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=21949306&pgtype=Homepage). Spencer is the third person to be diagnosed with the disease in the United States and survive. He was diagnosed shortly after having returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea. And while his condition became quite serious, he has reportedly improved so much that he’s now able to pick up and play the banjo again. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/nyregion/craig-spencer-new-york-doctor-with-ebola-will-leave-bellevue-hospital.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews®ion=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=21949306&pgtype=Homepage)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3576871/ebola-doctor-new-york/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3576871/ebola-doctor-new-york/"},"headline":"Ebola Doctor Out of New York Hospital","datePublished":"2014-11-10T22:32:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:20:53.562Z","description":"Spencer is third patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. and survive","url":"https://time.com/3576871/ebola-doctor-new-york/","keywords":["ebola","New York City","Ebola outbreak"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3576871/ebola-doctor-new-york/","name":"Ebola Doctor Out of New York Hospital"}}]}] ```