Anon - Patients who are HIV positive are considered as providing a risk to hospital personnel, and additional mandated procedures must be implemented during surgery. For this reason some physicians refuse to do the procedure, while others will do it but will charge a higher fee, in some cases as much as 60-70% more than the normal fee. If you are HIV positive and do not tell your surgeon you could be liable for criminal endangerment charges.
There is no readily available directory of physicians who do this, it will take some detective work. You may want to try some of the online support groups for HIV positive women. Good luck to you. Pat
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Anon - Patients who are HIV positive are considered as providing a risk to hospital personnel, and additional mandated procedures must be implemented during surgery. For this reason some physicians refuse to do the procedure, while others will do it but will charge a higher fee, in some cases as much as 60-70% more than the normal fee. If you are HIV positive and do not tell your surgeon you could be liable for criminal endangerment charges.
August 10, 2010 - 6:04pmThere is no readily available directory of physicians who do this, it will take some detective work. You may want to try some of the online support groups for HIV positive women. Good luck to you. Pat
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