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Table of Contents
 

Precious Stone
More Than Just a Number



Dodging Danger
Northern Disclosure
Ask For It By Name
Learning Latex
Yule Love ’Em
Catch of the Month
Cash Therapy
A Wealth of Trouble
Think Inside the Box
Baby Bonus
New Resistance Fighters



African in America
Windy City Blues
Unfine China
It’s a Wrap
Hot Dates-December 2007
Wake Up, India
Survey Says...
Clean Sweep
Look Elsewhere
Yesterday Once More
A Day Without “Day Without Art”
Medicine Man
Suspicious Minds



Editor's Letter-December 2007
Mailbox-December 2007


 
What You're Talking About
Ron Paul, Chris Wallace Need AIDS Education (blog) (42 comments)

Ron Paul Wants Higher Health Costs for People With AIDS (40 comments)

Detroit Man Alleges HIV Discrimination By Lysol-Spraying Dental Clinic Coworkers (26 comments)

You're Fired (blog) (13 comments)

Those Little Signposts (blog) (9 comments)

Effective Vaccine Against Virulent SIV Raises Hope for HIV (8 comments)
Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Shingles

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)

What is AIDS & HIV?

Hepatitis & HIV


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December 2007


Look Elsewhere

by Bob Ickes

Twenty-four years ago this month, the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) aired a doozy of a Christmas episode: “AIDS and Comfort.” Broadcast on December 21, 1983, it became the first in TV history to address AIDS—four months before HIV was even identified. The show followed a fictional Boston city councilman who may have contracted the mysterious pathogen either from a blood transfusion or unprotected sex. It set a standard for sensitivity and intelligence often lacking in prime time’s subsequent takes. Michael Brandon, who played the councilman, says, “Everyone said I was committing career suicide. Ten years later, Tom Hanks won an Oscar for Philadelphia—and they called me a trailblazer.”     


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