Would you eat cookies prepared by an AIDS patient? Survey reveals harmful attitudes among professionals.
Certain attitudes of healthcare workers toward patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus are inconsistent with medical knowledge and appear unlikely to be changed significantly or quickly by standard educational methods. Such attitudes may be detrimental to the doctor-patient relationship. Also, they detract from the true message that healthcare professionals should be sending to the public: that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is not spread by casual exposure, such as through food, water, or handling of food by infected persons.
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Westchester County Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans