Primary Care

Most Doctors Don't Know How To Care for HIV Infected Patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 11th, 1995

More than a decade into the AIDS epidemic, most physicians are still unable to provide adequate primary care to patients with HIV infection.

AIDS is the leading cause of death among U.S. men aged 15 to 44 years and the fourth leading cause of death among 15-to-44-year-old women, noted researchers J. Randall Curtis, Paul G. Ramsey, and colleagues of the University of Washington, Seattle, in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine (Physicians' Ability to Provide Initial Primary Care to an HIV-Infected Patient," Arch Int Med, August 7/21, 1995;155(15):1613-8).

But when Curtis et al. conducted a study of primary-care physicians, they discovered an...

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