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Mary Lynne Desmond thought she had found the perfect dentist. Philip Feldman, a graduate of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, had an engaging manner and seemed meticulous. Soon Desmond, a fourth-grade teacher who lives in Coram, N.Y., and her two children, husband, sister and brother-in-law all became Feldman's patients. "But in the last five or six years, he changed," Desmond recalls. "He did three shoddy root canals on me and even left a drill bit in one tooth." Now she has a lot more than a few botched operations to worry...
...test positive. In the past decade, out of the nearly 200,000 people who have developed AIDS in the U.S., only five are known to have been infected by a health-care worker. And epidemiologists quickly point out that all five cases can be traced to the same Florida dentist, David Acer. But the fact remains that it did happen, despite the odds and with devastating results. Already one of Acer's patients, Kimberly Bergalis, is near death; her plight and her understandable fury have moved millions to feel insecure when they go for teeth cleaning or an annual physical...
...originally thought I was going to be a dentist," Tomassoni says. "But after finishing my first two years, I reevaluated both my interests and my situation...
Public anxiety about medical professionals is already running high. The CDC reported earlier this year that a Florida dentist with AIDS had somehow infected three patients. Undoubtedly, precautions need to be tightened, but the possibility of contracting AIDS through mishaps or from infected doctors remains remote. Only 3 of 1,000 cases involving jabs with contaminated needles result in HIV transmission, according to the National Institutes of Health. And medical professionals face a greater risk of getting AIDS from patients than vice versa. About 40 workers have been infected by patients' blood. The three patients who caught the virus from...
Last October, Sterling broke some bad news to another dentist, Glover Rowe of Gadsden, Ala., and his wife Dee. Tests showed that unless they signed up for auditing, Glover's practice would fail, and Dee would someday abuse their child. The next month the Rowes flew to Glendale, Calif., where they shuttled daily from a local hotel to a Dianetics center. "We thought they were brilliant people because they seemed to know so much about us," recalls Dee. "Then we realized our hotel room must have been bugged." After bolting from the center, $23,000 poorer, the Rowes say, they...