HIV discrimination in health care

From columnist Deb Price at detnews.com:

Posing as discharge planners from hospitals or as HIV-positive patients, they contacted skilled nursing facilities, plastic surgeons and obstetricians in Los Angeles County.

What they found is shocking: 55 percent of surveyed obstetricians, 46 percent of nursing facilities, and 26 percent of plastic surgeons told Sears' student sleuths that they had a blanket policy of rejecting anyone with HIV.

Excuses offered for discriminating: inexperience with HIV and inadequately trained staff, and the claim that HIV patients always need "specialists."