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Dallas Times Herald
AIDS
From A-1
Parkland emergency-room pa-
tients were tested to find out
what percentage of the general
population has been exposed to
the AIDS virus. And, Anderson
said, the study also will help the
hospital determine potential risks
faced by emergency-room per-
sonnel.
About 1 percent of those 700
patients tested positive for expo-
sure to the AIDS-causing virus
and were informed of the results,
hospital officials said. The others
were not told they had tested
negative, or even that they had
been tested.
Dallas Gay Alliance officials
say they have been asked to pro-
vide legal help to three former
patients at Parkland who said
they; were tested for AIDS with-h
out being informed. The three s
men; say they were tested last i
fall, before the Parkland emer- e
gency-room study.
Over the past two months, the t
Gay:Alliance has received com- E
plaints from 29 men and one c
Woman who said they had been so
tested at Parkland without their h
knowledge, said the alliance's t
president, William Waybourn. -
"Parkland is running hundreds sih
pf these tests. It's part of their (
standard procedure. The other ex
hospitals in town aren't doing it, a
so why is Parkland?" Waybourn ac
said. "Why are they wasting tax- tha
payers' dollars?"
Doctors are concerned about I
being infected with the human to
mmunodeficiency virus, or HIV the
which can cause AIDS, Anderson said
said. "They are anxious and want COl
to protect themselves, and you theMIR
I
the patient's family, a doctor
could order a test, she said.
At St. Paul Medical Center,
doctors obtain oral consent from
patients before they conduct
test;said nurse epidemiologist
Carolyn Langewisch.
Testing at Baylor University
Medical Center is conducted with
consent, and counseling is pro-
vided afterward, said spokesman
Steve Habgood.
Parkland's medical director,
Dr. Alan Pierce, said, "Our policy
had been that a physician was al-
lowed to order HIV tests in any
situation in which the physician
thought it was justified. When
you re talking about,750 different
physicians who might order such
tests, I would not be surprised if
it (uninformed testing) did not
occur now and again."
Beginning this week, Pierce
said, Parkland will follow health
department guidelines adopted
by the state agency on Jan. 23.
Those guidelines, which do not
tipulate prior consent by the pa-
ient, state a person. may be test-
*d for AIDS if hospital staff will
ouch blood or body fluids dur-
ng surgery or other medical pro-
edures, Pierce said. A patient al-
may be tested after hospital
personnel have been exposed to
he patient's body fluids.
"This defines more crisply the
tuations in which a reasonable
ospital) board thinks the test is
stifled," Pierce said. "We will
pect doctors to always inform
patient if the patient is con-
ious. We have encouraged
at."
Letters will be sent this week
Parkland doctors informing
m of the new policy, Pierce
d. Under this policy, a patient
ld be tested for exposure to
HIV virus and not informed
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