12-23-04 10:45 PM
Thrasher - The Anonymous Remailer wrote:
> "Woman Wins Award After False AIDS Test" United Press International
> (08/16/94)
> An Ohio Court has awarded a Cincinnati woman $100,000 in a
> medical negligence lawsuit against the university of Cincinnati
> and Hoxworth Blood Center over inaccurate HIV test results.
> Andrea Beth Alfarano Kennedy, a former nursing assistant at
> university Hospital, accidentally stuck herself with a used
> syringe in July 1990 and complied with hospital regulations that
> she undergo HIV testing. On Aug. 8, 1990, Alfarano Kennedy was
> informed that she had tested positive for HIV on two separate
> tests. Concerned that she could transmit the virus to her child
> if she were to become pregnant, she subsequently underwent a
> hysterectomy; the tests later proved to be incorrect.
First of all, people in the medical profession are well aware of the
dangers they will face when they treat the afflicted. People with AIDS
are not only the gay but the striaght. Doctors treat people with
highly contaigous diseases, yet still they treat their patients. They
accept the risk. Just as a police officer accepts the risk that he
could be killed in the line of duty. Just as a firefighter risks his
life to save people in a burning building. Horrors are all around us
in society...murderers, kidnappers, shady politicians, the point is,
heterosexuals wreak just as much horror (if not more)on the innocent.
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