"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Fast and Quick: A nice write-up on the new rapid HIV test, and why it's important to have a quick and reliable diagnostic test:
Of the 2.1 million people who were given publicly funded HIV tests in the United States in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 30 percent of those who tested positive -- approximately 18,000 people -- did not return for their results. Neither did 40 percent of those testing negative.
Makes me wonder how many of those patients who tell me they had their test at the health department are telling me the truth about their results. posted by Sydney on
6/24/2003 08:40:00 AM
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