Sometimes rules are broken by our assistant.
Oh god, you're going to end up as one of those residents that refuses to do anything invasive on patients with HIV or hep C and tries to frantically turf off everything from central lines to ABGs aren't you?No, I wouldn't ask. If they had to disclose if they were HIV positive--then I would feel more comfortable with a surgeon who didn't have HIV then one who did. And how you can't seem to fathom the simple point I am making is annoying. Rather avoid having a HIV + surgeon inside me with scalpels and his opposite hand running close by. As I said a pcp doc who had HIV I feel would have no need to disclose and I would have absolutely no problem seeing them as my pcp. But, a surgeon I would rather not have HIV+ dude opening me up…and I am sure I am not alone on this.
Oh god, you're going to end up as one of those residents that refuses to do anything invasive on patients with HIV or hep C and tries to frantically turf off everything from central lines to ABGs aren't you?
I saw two cases while I was volunteering at an occupation department at a local hospital
Any surgeon would likely be on antiretrovirals and have a vital load of damn near zero. Surgeon acquired HIV infections are so rare as to be unheard of nowadays in first world countries.I am not even in med school year. I have to do well on this MCAT before I would even be faced with the situation you laid out. And know I would do it, but because I am the one in control of procedure. I.e. I stick myself running a line on an HIV patient its on me--I messed up. I can cope with this a lot better than after post-op, "Oh, the attending fixing your valve pricked himself while in your thoracic cavity and blood may have been transferred. Oh yeah he is also HIV positive." I would lose my mind with this situation! If I am getting operated on and presumably sedated I have zero control over a situation with a HIV+ surgeon operating on me, just hope he doesn't prick himself or even lacerate himself. I realize this is a slim chance of happening, but at the end of the day if I had a choice between a HIV+ surgeon and HIV- operating on me I would pick HIV-. If you can't understand where I am coming from then I don't know what to say, but I am done with this thread. Adios
No, I wouldn't ask. If they had to disclose if they were HIV positive--then I would feel more comfortable with a surgeon who didn't have HIV then one who did. And how you can't seem to fathom the simple point I am making is annoying. Rather avoid having a HIV + surgeon inside me with scalpels and his opposite hand running close by. As I said a pcp doc who had HIV I feel would have no need to disclose and I would have absolutely no problem seeing them as my pcp. But, a surgeon I would rather not have HIV+ dude opening me up…and I am sure I am not alone on this.
It's probably crabs
Attendings in teaching hospitals are more likely to suffer intraoperative wounds due to the fact that residents are usually doing most of the case. It goes with the territory.
Well syphilis does cross the blood-brain-barrier.
No one is assuming. It's the scenario in question. It's the difference between blood-borne STD and a non-bloodborne STD.
I had to look that word up! I thought SDN altered it. Like the word dingus.
