iamme Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 HIV diagnosis wrong after 8 yearsSAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he was never infected.Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.Malone's main physician, Dr. Richard Karp, acknowledged the error in an August 4 letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic where Malone was treated. "As his primary care provider, I take full responsibility," the doctor wrote.Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS, said he is relieved but angry at his doctor."He told me, 'We made a very big mistake. We did not do our job,"' he said. "I said, 'You mean to tell me that all you have to say is you are sorry? Sorry that I lived for all this time believing I was going to die?"'The Oakland Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating.The error may have occurred because Malone arrived at the clinic in 1996 with lab results from a testing firm showing he had HIV, said Karen Pridmore, spokeswoman for the VA's Northern California Health Care System.The clinic performed its own HIV test on Malone to confirm the first set of results and it came back negative, but that information was never shared with the patient, Pridmore said.The mistake was uncovered by the VA's computer system, which tracks HIV patients and conducts a periodic review of cases.THOUGHTS??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 wow thats fucked up...I feel so bad for that guy.. I can only imagine the mental anguish he went through for eight years - only to find out now that he's healthy.Did they have him on meds? If so, he could be in bad shape.. those meds are very powerful and they could have broken down his kidney/liver function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highmay Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 sue their asses... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutcase34 Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 thats pretty messed up...thinking each day when you go to bed thinking you may never wake up....for eight years.....definitely gonna cause a snap.how can you test a patient and not share the results with him? especially if they contradict the first set of results? aren't they supposed to try a 2-out-of-3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullseye Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 once u say ur sorry, ur fucked legally. so sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgmodel Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 HIV diagnosis wrong after 8 yearsSAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he was never infected.Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.Malone's main physician, Dr. Richard Karp, acknowledged the error in an August 4 letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic where Malone was treated. "As his primary care provider, I take full responsibility," the doctor wrote.Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS, said he is relieved but angry at his doctor."He told me, 'We made a very big mistake. We did not do our job,"' he said. "I said, 'You mean to tell me that all you have to say is you are sorry? Sorry that I lived for all this time believing I was going to die?"'The Oakland Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating.The error may have occurred because Malone arrived at the clinic in 1996 with lab results from a testing firm showing he had HIV, said Karen Pridmore, spokeswoman for the VA's Northern California Health Care System.The clinic performed its own HIV test on Malone to confirm the first set of results and it came back negative, but that information was never shared with the patient, Pridmore said.The mistake was uncovered by the VA's computer system, which tracks HIV patients and conducts a periodic review of cases.THOUGHTS???my newspaper quote would be "big up to technology for being so advance in spotting and diagnosing me with a disease i didnt have but now contracted since i joined a club of ppl that have sex with each other because they cant have sex with anyone else because of aids... thank you dr.scholl, dr. louie rocko, dr. pepper, and dr.strangelove you pieces of dog shit..." and then youd see a myriad of photos of me on page 3,4,5 being arrested for kicking the shit out of my doctors and my lawyer for not suing this quack years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havokk Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 isn't it usually customary for one to get a second test upon receiving word of a "positive" result? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamme Posted August 31 Author Report Share Posted August 31 i wonder how much he's going to sue for......here he is....http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/HEALTH/08/30/false.hivtest.ap/story.hiv.false.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutcase34 Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 isn't it usually customary for one to get a second test upon receiving word of a "positive" result?it says he did and the test results came back negative....but they never told him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamme Posted August 31 Author Report Share Posted August 31 how do you not tell someone that? did it just "slip your mind" wtf...its not something simple like hmmmmmmmm, your blood pressure is high. its wow, looks like youre NOT going to fvckin die....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 isn't it usually customary for one to get a second test upon receiving word of a "positive" result?Well not everyone does.. if you take a Western Blot, its 99.9% accurate... so a lot of times its rather meaningless to take a 2nd test.The thing that sucks is he DID take the 2nd test and his quack doc failed to share the results.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christyne13 Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 ...yet one more reason why I dislike physicians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highmay Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 ...yet one more reason why I dislike physicians. other than the fact that they're probably smarter than you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christyne13 Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 Well I already know I'm smarter than you....being from Southside Brooklyn!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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