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Medical Ethics and the Rights of People With HIV Under Assault

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Etnpoz

I agree completely with Richard Ferri. Over the past 20 years I have had problems with meds being prescribed improperly. I am currently on a very risky combo Raltegravir unboosted (I've had previous PI experience) along with two agents that I don't believe are fully active, as far as I can tell. My objections fall on deaf ears. I was told I should take the meds "regardless of the side effects". Further suggesting non compliance. It's good to know that AT LEAST one physician has voiced the truth. This is ridiculously dangerous.

August 19, 2010

Richard Ferri

Okay here I go with my walk on reality crap again. If everyone does not know by now lets get it out of the way. I am HIV positive and I practice AIDS medicine as a primary care clinician. I see HIV with a lens not many do. It is both a good and bad vision quest. But bottom line for me is the fact that most of my new patients coming into my practice have been screwed over repeatedly by clinicians not skilled and educated enough in AIDS medicine and I am left with mopping up potentially life threatening mess of wrong drugs, poorly treated (if treated at all) side-effects, and patients that are justifiably pissed off. HIV is COMPLICATED medicine and the TNT scenario leaves me shuddering with poorly prepared clinicians lobbing toxic chemo (yes, everyone....daily ART IS daily chemotherapy) at people. This will blow up into a nightmare not even Larry Kramer can conceptualize.

June 15, 2010

atlanta poz

i believe dr's should have to answer for their medical mistakes legally and not be protected i see this happening more and more in hiv clinics, management encircle their own like a wagon train in western movies when they do , seems the patients rights dont count anymore , i ask for more accountability! before its to late, same goes for hiv dental clinics to, because delaying or missing things can have a really adverse affect on any hiv patients health and lives! a pill isnt the cure and we as hiviers shouldnt live in fear of speaking out.

May 27, 2010

atlanta poz

and furthermore hiv dental clinics should also have to answer to medical unethical practices and abuse of patients rights , sometimes i believe review boards overlook hiv dental clinics because they are so few, but they to make mistakes that effect hiv patients rights, that can put hiv patients health at risk. they should answer to thier mistakes and thier bad judgements , as regular medical providers have to, because when you are dealing with immuno compromised patients neglecting some situations to long can be dangerous to hiv patients health, so lets have them go by ethics rules. speak out dont be afraid to make complaints, and dont live in fear of having treatment cutoff for speaking out....if your silent nuthing can be corrected!

May 27, 2010

ATLANTA POZ

It is clear that the health of people with HIV has become, for some, secondary to HIV prevention. Those of us with HIV are now viewed by much of the public health establishment primarily as potential infectors, "viral vectors of disease". >>>>>>>>>>>>>>THIS IS WHAT I GUESS I WAS TRYING TO SAY THAT IVE SEEN IN ACTION HERE IN ATLANTA OVER AND OVER AGAIN, SEEMS PEOPLE NEED TO FIND THEIR VOICES AND SPEAK LOUDLY AGAIN

May 26, 2010

Norm

Thanks for the eye opening article. It is much appreciated.

May 26, 2010

atlanta poz

another thing i believe dr's should have to answer for their medical mistakes legally and not be protected i see this happening more and more in hiv clinics, management encircle their own like a wagon train in western movies when they do , seems the patients rights dont count anymore , i ask for more accountability! before its to late

May 24, 2010

atlanta poz

i find that dr's are not for the patients anymore they are more for dispensing pills and being lazy and not stepping outside the box they protect their own more than patients right and when they stay in a hiv clinic too long they get a king or queen complex, and if you speak out you will be treated differently and denied some treatment, here in atlanta i see dr's letting things go and risking patients lives, i believe there needs to be an overhaul of the system here. before to many people have to pay the price for those risks, people stop depending so much on believing every word a dr says ask questions and demand answers its our lives that get effected by their mistakes, and i feel the medical teams act like the gestapo if you speak out against them , and they tend to refuse treatment if you do complain . i believe clinics should change out drs every few yrs so you avoid the god like complexes, ive been poz since 80's i seen the changes, yes meds are great but hiv/aids isnt cured and people are still dying. atlanta dr's do more preventative therapy dont wait til your patient is dying or damaged because you are lazy. if you cant do the job get out, thank you

May 24, 2010

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