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Archive > November, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 11

Safety

A Hepatitis-Infected Surgeon Speaks Out on OR Safety

Jane Perry, MA

Jane Perry, MA William Fiser, MD, is one of few surgeons who has acknowledged publicly he is infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Last year, he published a letter in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology that discussed surgeon-to-patient transmission of bloodborne pathogens.1 He was also featured in an article in Newsday, a Long Island (N.Y.) daily; the headline was telling: "Deciding to Step Away."2 After becoming ill with HCV, he resigned his private practice and took a faculty position in the surgery department at the University of Arkansas medical center.

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