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Paul Volberding, MD

JAMA. 1989;261(5):747-748.

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PHYSICIANS and other health care professionals caring for patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) may assume a greater degree of responsibility and face a more complicated array of problems than in treating almost any other patient group. Not only is AIDS care challenging in terms of its medical complexity, but social stigma as well as political obstacles unfortunately still surround the disease. The issues evoked by AIDS require us to consider aspects of medicine and our social structure that, before the advent of AIDS, many may have preferred to ignore. For example, will the societal fear and discrimination generated by AIDS also influence us as health care providers? Can we possibly organize and maintain a system of care for patients with AIDS that is comprehensive and socially sensitive while many in our society continue to think of AIDS as "someone else's problem"? Where will we find the personal support we . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the AIDS Activities Division, San Francisco General Hospital.

Footnotes
Presented in part at the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention, London, January 1988.

Reprint requests to AIDS Activities Division, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110 (Dr Volberding).

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