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Thu 02 Feb 2010Surgeon with HIV seeking damages
A SURGEON who claims he contracted the HIV virus during the course of his duties has brought a High Court action for damages.
During the three months prior to being diagnosed with HIV in 1997, the surgeon said he operated on more than 100 patients, but could not be specific about when he was infected. “I just knew I had sustained numerous needle-stick injuries, and unfortunately one of them got me.”
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