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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!travel!carl.camurca
- From: carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Can't Touch This
- Message-ID: <7056.466.uupcb@travel.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:00:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Travel Online / St. Louis Online - St. Louis, MO
- Reply-To: carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca)
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- FDL>One of our local news channels here in Houston is running a segment
- FDL>on local women who are HIV+. Last night one woman described how she
- FDL>found out--she was going to have some sort of nose operation
- FDL>and the morning she was scheduled to go in, her doctor
- FDL>called and said, Nope, Don't bother. I'm not going to do it.
- FDL>Turns out she had tested positive. This was surprising to me,
- FDL>and raised some questions.
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- FDL>Was her experience the exception or the rule? In other words,
- FDL>what percentage of surgeons do this type of screening? I'm not
- FDL>interested in the ethics, pros and cons, etc.--we've seen
- FDL>those discussions in this newsgroup. What I'm interested to know is
- FDL>the percentage of Drs. who do actively screen out patients on this
- FDL>basis. e.g. (Of the ten surgeons who work here, 1 won't see HIV
- FDL>patients. Or 9 won't)
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- FDL>Do clinics or hospitals have policies on this, or is it up to the
- FDL>individual doctor?
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- Isn't there the Oath of Hippocrate ?!?
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- Sue the Doctor!!!
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- FDL>Duane Franklet
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- Angry, Carl.
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- * OLX 2.1 TD * He isnt dead; He's electroencephalographically challenged
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