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False
HIV Test
Made
Man Think He Was Dying For 8 Years
August 2004
A California man who once tested positive for HIV has learned
the diagnosis made eight years ago was a mistake 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 Aug. 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 said he is relieved but angry at his doctor. The error
may have occurred because Malone arrived at the clinic in 1996
with lab results from a testing firm showing he had HIV, however,
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.
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