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...hike imposed by the state's largest insurance carrier, doctors in South Florida declared last Wednesday "Disaster Day." Nearly 80% of Broward County's 600 specialists, including neurologists, obstetricians and orthopedic surgeons, resigned from emergency-room duties. Twelve of the county's 16 hospitals now refuse to accept trauma patients with head and spinal-cord injuries...
...newsroom of the Denver Post, reporters and editors cope with a company ban on smoking by gnawing on licorice roots and chewing on unlit cigars. Broward Davis & Associates, a surveying and consulting firm in Tallahassee, ) refuses to hire anyone who smokes. New England Telephone employees can take a puff in only half the company's rest rooms, and workers at United Technologies' Hartford headquarters must refrain from lighting up in any public work area...
Eight months after a diagnosis in January 1984 revealed that he had AIDS, Todd Shuttleworth was fired from his job as a budget analyst for Florida's Broward County. "We just couldn't take the chance of anything happening to employees or to anyone visiting the office," explains John Canada, budget and management policy director for the county. Many AIDS victims who feel wronged hesitate to embark on legal battles that they may not live to see completed. Not Shuttleworth. He brought a $15 million lawsuit against the county, and has continued to press it while struggling through AIDS-related...
...agencies regarding AIDS-related discrimination. While agreeing that under the law AIDS is a handicap, Justice officials decreed that contagiousness is not. Therefore, they contended, it is permissible to discriminate on the basis of concern over contagion, even if that concern is groundless and irrational. In the Shuttleworth case, Broward County is using arguments that run parallel to those in the Justice guidelines. "They support what we've said all along," says Gordon Rogers, the county's attorney. If it chooses to do so, however, the Supreme Court may rule broadly enough in Arline to invalidate in effect the guidelines...
...Telephone, revealed his illness in May 1985, co-workers refused to use the truck he had driven, demanded that the bathroom he used be disinfected and threatened to kill Cronan if he returned to work. The company put Cronan on disability leave. Todd Shuttleworth, a former budget analyst for Broward County, Fla., came down with AIDS in 1984. The county dismissed him and canceled his medical benefits immediately after Shuttleworth revealed his illness. Says Paul Swinney, who lost his federal prison-guard job in California after contracting AIDS: "They simply want...