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Re: HIV testing From: DoctorJoe@aol.com Sat Nov 29 18:11:57 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Charlie Chambers: "Re: HIV testing" Previous message: Dr. Ainsworth: "HIV testing" Maybe in reply to: Dr. Ainsworth: "HIV testing" Next in thread: Charlie Chambers: "Re: HIV testing" In a message dated 11/29/03 16:54:54, ainsron@sbcglobal.net writes: > Today I had the second positive HIV since beginning routine OB testing. > It was on a woman I've known for 20 years.  She and her husband are both > pillars of the community, both professionals.  Now I've got to have her > come in on Monday to discuss this abnormal test result.  Barring a screw > up at the lab, this result will be devastating to this family because of > the ramifications that one or the other was unfaithful and/or has a > hidden life.  She has never had a surgery or blood transfusion and to my > knowledge, neither has he.  It certainly emphasizes to me that we need > to do universal screening for HIV and not exclude our friends and > neighbors from testing. > Don't forget remote blood transfusions or tattoos, although I'd figure you would know about both. We had an HIV guru talk to us a few years ago. He was from Virginia (?I think) and the difference between his HIV patients and ours in Louisiana was the "in the closet" husband syndrome. He said it was not uncommon for fine and upstanding bankers and other professional men to live exemplary and straight lives, only to have a few little "encounters" on their yearly or biannually conventions in Vegas or SF or somewhere. Then they'd come home, live a "normal" life, but they or their spouse would magically show up HIV-positive at some point, usually with incipient AIDS, since they weren't routinely screened, only showing up when opportunistic infections showed up. Joe P. Next message: Charlie Chambers: "Re: HIV testing" Previous message: Dr. Ainsworth: "HIV testing" Maybe in reply to: Dr. Ainsworth: "HIV testing" Next in thread: Charlie Chambers: "Re: HIV testing"

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