KevinMD December 10, 2025
What is the significance of World AIDS Day?
While pondering this question, many memories came flooding back. As a medical student in 1985, I was given the option to go into the room of a patient with pneumonia who was infected with this new disease. “You don’t have to,” as at that time my attending wanted to protect me. Regardless, I gowned up, put on a mask and gloves, and went into the room with the rest of the team to see the patient, the first patient I saw with HIV/AIDS. We did not stay in the room long.
Also, as a medical student, while doing an away rotation in 1986, I was instructed by my attending to inform a...
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