Posted on 07/05/2014 10:42:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Patient care providers were not allowed to know whether or not a patient they were working with was infected or not, as that would ‘violate patient privacy’. Instead, ALL patients were to be treated as if they were infected.
That part of the patient record was sealed from all nursing & ancillary staff; only the actual treating physician knew.
Lab draws for HIV testing were even coded to maintain anonymity from staff.
In cases of accidental needle-sticks, or other possible provider exposures, testing & follow up testing was done on the worker only, but the focus was to protect the “privacy” of any infected patient, unlike any other communicable disease. Isolation was out of the question, because it would “unfairly stigmatize” the patient—excuse me; the CLIENT.
It was insanity, and a major factor in my leaving patient care for a desk job.
W is beloved in Africa for the HIV support he gave.
It takes all that to tell them to masturbate, not fornicate?!?
Democrats rounded up Japanese-Americans and put them in concentration camps during WWII. Germans got a pass.
During the 1930’s, Democrats used impoverished black men as lab rats, to see the effects of deliberately untreated syphilis.
Ever notice every “act of evil committed by the US” that the liberals shriek about were perpetrated by their fellows? Often, those they accuse were the ones fighting to expose and stop such behavior!
And as far as internment camps for AIDS patients—the only person I can think of to do this would be Castro. A fellow traveler of Stipes and his ilk.
The problem is idiots on the left say things like this and there’s no push-back from idiots on the right, so the LIV’s go around thinking there were indeed internment camps for AIDS-positive people back in the 80’s.
There were.... in Cuba!
I detested this imbecilic band even before I knew this about him.
He toured the world with his band di-n’t he?
Why didn’t he just go to a clinic and get tested in Canada or the UK?
Non-existent internment camps. Somebody should clue this freakin’ idiot things like internment(’’concentration)camps are creations of the Left(the Nazis, Soviet communists, etc.)
The nasty faggot.
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