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Carole, My thoughts and prayers will be with you. Cathy Carole Hercun wrote: > Hi Charlie and Chris: Just to put this in perspective. I > had the unfortunate occurrence of being 'stuck' today with > a needle I had used on a patient of mine with full-blown > AIDS and Hepatitis. (The so-called safety mechanism on the > syringe was apparently unsafe.) The infectious disease > people said that the prophylactic treatment had to be > started within hours to be effective. Therefore I had to > pay out-of-pocket to the closest pharmacy that had the 3 > AIDS drugs I needed (which will be reimbursed.)