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calendar   Thursday - December 01, 2011

should medical staff, dentists, doctors with hiv, be allowed to treat patients?

Lets here it for the Department of Health. They want us to be brave.  Well, I am not ashamed to confess I am a world class coward when it comes to this sort of thing.  Sorry but I’d be damn nervous knowing someone with HIV was gonna be working on me.  Wait. Sorry?  Why should I be sorry for being a bit paranoid about this? 

Take a look.  Would you feel comfortable with this?

HIV sufferers could be allowed to work as surgeons and dentists

By SOPHIE BORLAND

HIV sufferers could soon be able to work as surgeons or dentists.

The Department of Health wants to lift the current ban because it claims any risk to patients is ‘very low’.

Health workers who are HIV positive are banned from performing most surgery or dental treatment in case they cut themselves with their instruments and infect patients with their blood.

They can become GPs, hospital doctors, nurses or midwives and carry out nearly all day-to-day tasks, including giving injections, which are considered low risk.

But the Department of Health wants to lift the ban because it says the chance of a health worker infecting a patient is ‘negligible’.

uh huh well, I’m on the chicken side of this issue. 

It has undertaken research suggesting the risk of a patient catching HIV from their doctor, dentist or surgeon is less than one in five million, similar to that of being killed by lightning.

Officials say the risk can be further reduced by ensuring any infected member of staff takes medication to reduce their virus count, which means it cannot easily be passed on.

The Government says there have so far been no recorded cases of patients in Britain catching HIV from a healthcare worker, although it has happened abroad.

In the U.S. a dentist with HIV infected six patients, while a gynaecologist in Spain passed on the illness to one woman.

And in France a nurse is known to have passed on the virus to one patient and an orthopaedic surgeon infected another.

The Department of Health launched a consultation yesterday on its proposals to lift the ban and in the next few weeks will gather feedback from organisations and the public.

Officials are expected to make a final decision next year.

Right. Here we go again .  Feedback from the public. Translation.  We’re going to hold another one of our “consultations” where our decision has already been made.

They say the risk to patients is just one in five million. Oh I feel better already.

some reader comments from the Daily Mail

1 in 5 million”??! With 51 million people in England, 10 people are potentially at risk of getting HIV just because a surgeon or dentist accidently gets a bit of blood in you. Absolutly horrific....there are plenty of other jobs you can give people like this, you wouldn’t make a blind person a bus driver, why do this?!
- Alex, UK, 1/12/2011 11:20

1 in 5 million, so that means you have a better chance of catching HIV than winning the lottery.- Patrick , london, 01/12/2011 08:25### And usualy there is a winner every week! This proposal is a bit like saying that it is fine for “Typhoid Mary” to cook for you as long as she washes her hands first! No thanks! In all seriousness, there are plenty of HIV positive people out there who need regular medical treatment, It would make sense for HIV positive medical staff to concentrate on looking after those that are already infected and have nothing to lose. there is no need for them to be out of a job because of their condition. and there is no need for exposing the rest of us to a small but totally unececcary risk of a deadly disease in order to satisfy a political agenda!
- Paul, Surrey, 1/12/2011 11:1


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