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Many patients are eyeing their doctors and dentists with growing suspicion these days. The anxiety stems from reports of medical professionals' dying of AIDS and, most alarmingly, of a woman who claims to have been infected with the virus by her dentist during a tooth extraction. Amid the swelling concern and hyped press, the Centers for Disease Control is considering a controversial shift in policy that for the first time would recommend restrictions on health-care workers infected with the AIDS virus...
Several studies have tracked the patients of AIDS-infected doctors and dentists, but to date there has not been a single confirmed case of the virus' being transmitted from a health-care worker to a patient. The Florida incident involving Kimberly Bergalis, 22, who allegedly acquired the virus from her dentist, is still open to question. Federal investigators have not determined how she was exposed to the dentist's blood. Even if the Bergalis case is an instance of doctor-to-patient transmission, the risk is minute when compared with other medical dangers. Says Dr. Julie Gerberding, director...
Like moths around candles, a number of gifted writers have been dazzled by that subspecies of Homo americanus, the murdering sociopath. Witness Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision. Or this well-crafted account of the fatal swath cut by an Indiana-born dentist named Kenneth Z. Taylor...
...will be important to determine how this type of drug compares with conventional mechanical treatment and how it may advance the dentist's ability to treat the disease," he said...
Last summer the four fresh-faced lads (whose names are changed here) -- the sons of a dentist, a teacher, a banker and a part-time police officer -- were shown to seats in the sanctuary of the Clifton Jewish Center, one of the buildings they defaced. They were chewing gum, cracking knuckles, trying to balance yarmulkes on their heads. Markovitz broke the tension. "Am I to judge you by your earrings?" the rabbi asked one boy from the pulpit. "You all grew up with beautiful families, but you must never take anything for granted. You must always relearn the lesson...