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Should we protect families from patients? (use of universal precautions when family members view the body of a loved one who died from infectious disease)(case study: includes commentaries)
Mary B, a twenty-three-year-old woman with a history of HIV, was admitted to an urban teaching hospital with a diagnosis of normal intrauterine pregnancy (35 weeks), Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, sepsis, and hepatitis B. Upon admission, the patient complained of lower back pains, shortness of ...
May 1, 1998; The Hastings Center Report

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