Nation IN BRIEF : ILLINOIS : Surgeons Reject AIDS Guidelines
The 51,000-member American College of Surgeons, meeting in Chicago, flatly rejected government proposals on which procedures AIDS-infected doctors and nurses should be allowed to perform. Transmission of the disease from medical personnel to patients in a hospital “is so far a purely hypothetical event,” and to single out certain surgical procedures as risk prone would be “irrelevant and counterproductive” the convention said in a statement. The state of New York and other groups, including medical organizations in California, have already rejected the proposals.
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