Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: More on AIDS and Health Workers Message-ID: <775@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 17:21:40 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.775 Posted: Fri Oct 25 17:21:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:09:59 EST References: <1026@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 31 Summary: In article <1026@decwrl.UUCP> mason@pneuma.DEC (ANDREA 223-4864 PK03-2/H31 POLE 15F) writes: >Reprinted from the Boston Globe (Thursday, 10/17/85) > >"STUDY SAYS SURGEON WITH AIDS INFECTED NO ONE" >Associated Press > >A Florida surgeon with acquired immune deficiency syndrome operated on >hundreds of patients without passing on the disease, supporting the >belief that AIDS-infected health workers can safely treat patients, a >study says. Consider how a surgeon prepares for surgery. Thorough scrub with disinfectant soap, sterile cap, gown, mask, gloves. How many "health workers" go through such a procedure prior to seeing each patient? How many occupations come under the heading "health worker"? >Sacks' report, published as a letter in today's edition of the New >England Journal of Medicine, said that theoretically the disease could >be transmitted if an infected health care worker accidently bled into >a patient's open wound. Probably true. I think we can reasonably assume the surgeon didn't bleed into any of his patients. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp(+)TTI Common Sense is what tells you that a ten 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. pound weight falls ten times as fast as a Santa Monica, CA 90405 one pound weight. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe