The HBV Carrier — A New Kind of Leper?

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Persons in medicine, dentistry, and allied professions have an enormous stake in their continued ability to give direct health care. Forced into administrative and other positions involving no patient contact, even when comparable remuneration is offered, many workers committed to patient care would not find comparable satisfaction. More importantly, they would be unable to use skills both needed by the public and arduously acquired by themselves at the cost of years of deferred income and very hard work. Nonetheless, there is the possibility that an estimated 1 per cent or more of health-care professionals, the carriers of hepatitis B virus . . .

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