AIDS and the politics of compassion.
The AIDS epidemic presents the health care community with an exceptionally complex set of challenges, says June E. Osborn, M.D., the chairwoman of the National Commission on AIDS. Care-giver burnout, clinical and cost issues, and above all the challenge the disease poses to health care provider--and societal--compassion, make this epidemic unusually difficult to tackle, she writes.
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National Commission on AIDS.
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