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- Subject: Re: Can't Touch This
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- From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:40:25 GMT
- Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
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- In article <18NOV199213152219@rosie.uh.edu| englhq@rosie.uh.edu (Franklet, Duane L.) writes:
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- |Was her experience the exception or the rule? In other words,
- |what percentage of surgeons do this type of screening? I'm not
- |interested in the ethics, pros and cons, etc.--we've seen
- |those discussions in this newsgroup. What I'm interested to know is
- |the percentage of Drs. who do actively screen out patients on this
- |basis. e.g. (Of the ten surgeons who work here, 1 won't see HIV
- |patients. Or 9 won't)
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- I'm not sure what the laws are for private practice, and they
- probably vary by state. In the Veterans Administration, informed
- consent is required for HIV testing, and patient counseling must
- be given prior to the test. I suspect that this lady signed such
- a consent as part of her surgical informed consent, but was not
- aware of it.
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- As far as her surgeon's actions (refusing to operate on her), we
- have been through that before in this group, and I won't start
- that up again.
-
- -km
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