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Prison Dentist Sues to Hide AIDS
Loaded on July 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1992, page 5
A dentist who has treated patients at the Metropolitan Corrections Center, Chicago's federal prison, recently filed a lawsuit trying to prevent the Bureau of Prisons from disclosing the fact that he has AIDS to anyone except in medically justified cases. In what lawyers say may be the first case in …
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