Posted on 11/16/2007 4:22:08 PM PST by wagglebee
I serious doubt the doctors would expose themselves to this if they had known. Operating on someone with this condition is very risky for the Doctors and Nurses. It would be advisable for the Doctors and Nurses to be tested.
A lot of people predicted this stuff twenty years ago. They were called “right-wing nutjobs”, “extremists” and “tin foil hat wearers.” Personally I wear my tin foil hat with pride now:)
Seriously, I would not mind rejecting all homosexuals for blood donors or tissue donors, unless they were going to another homosexual patient.
Further, I would also like stricter policies towards straight donors too, based on their poor lifestlye choices. I already know they reject all drug users, but I wouldn’t mind them rejecting single people who by their own admission are sexually active. If that drops the potential pool, so be it. There’s a lot of nasty dieseases floating around in the hetero community that you can’t get rid of, too.
I don’t know, but if I were those negligent doctors, I’d be watching my back a lot more carefully from now on.
TPTB have already told us that in so many words....
We ve been told that not only are we heteros just as much at risk as gay men....NOT TRUE.... but, that we heteros will have to alter OUR lives and the lives of OUR kids because of their disease spreading ways....
OUR indedpendence and OUR freedoms will be sacrificed ....
We couldn't isolate gay men with AIDS....we couldn't close bath houses....we couldn't condemn their "lifestyle".....
We couldn't get homos off the tv or the movies....we couldn't refuse to have them give "talks" in our schools....
But we sure as hell could pay for them and their promiscuous ways....
every study done to my knowledge shows that living an active gay lifestyle which is ultimately having frequent anal sex with multiple partners is a HUGE and DEVASTATING heatlh risk...even if HIV was not around.
Are you crazy? These poor people who thought they were being given the gift of life just received a death sentence. Not only were they given HIV they were given Hepatitis as well. All without their knowledge. Both incurable diseases, where there is NO treatment for. I would also imagine that these diseases could potentially attack their bodies quicker because they are already compromised.
I have a relative who is a homosexual...he does not jump from bed to bed thank God....but he believes that AIDs is all the fault of Reagan....supposedly Reagan had a magic wand to make bad diseases dissappear....
I don’t fault the donor but I fault his “community” for making AIDs a politically correct disease with special protections.....
I was stationed in Germany for eight years so I can’t either. I was told that I will not be eligible to donate until they come up with a practical screening test for the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE).
I would like to donate but I understand why they say I can’t.
Meanwhile the “Bath House Boys” are demanding the “Right” for gays to donate blood.
wonder if grey’s anatomyor ER will have the guts to do a story based on this.
Possible. Just as likely that he checked the "organ donor" box on his driver's license 10-odd years ago, and the hospital screwed up and didn't bother to check to see what he died of...
I'm not excusing his behavior...'tis something that one less self-obsessed would have thought of, IMHO.
Yep. And any man that’s had sex with a prostitute is at risk too. That lets out quite a few good hetero men. And a heck of a lot of soldiers. It may have changed, but until recently, women in the 50-60 age group were among the fastest growing AIDS population.
I wouldn’t want AIDS/HIV, don’t get me wrong. But Magic Johnson (among others) has lived a long time with it. If it can be kept in check, if the right cocktail of meds are prescribed.....well, who knows? She might live a lot longer than she would have without the transplant.
This makes no sense to me. What’s the point of being an organ donor if you’re HIV positive, anyway?? It’s like giving a hungry child a poison cookie.
He wasnt HIV positive and it takes time for someone to become HIV positive. He tested negative at the time of the dontation but had a homosexual hi risk lifestyle. So he was a not converting carrier. If he had lived longer he would have converted to HIV positive.
Sad.
A few years ago, a hospital in Dallas gave several patients rabies via transplant.
Maybe you are not a protected class.
Yes, but she has no civil recourse. Tort reform, don’t you know?
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