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Man Misdiagnosed with HIV finds truth 8 Years Late
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SAN FRANCISCO - A California man who once tested positive for HIV (news - web sites) has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he never had the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites).  
 
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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 doctor, Richard Karp, acknowledged the error in an Aug. 4 letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs (news - web sites) 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.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Man Misdiagnosed with HIV finds truth 8 Years
« Reply #1 on: Sep 1st, 2004, 10:46am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Man, he should sue or ask the doctor for his life back. 8 years! That would cost... hmmmm... depends...
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I smell BIG BUCKS in this man's future lol
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« Reply #3 on: Sep 2nd, 2004, 11:58am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
He can always buy new friends for those he has lost... even if not intentionally. And he can have certain type of "fun" again without being shunned at...
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