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From: STCHRI%MCMASTER.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu (DOUGLASS ST.CHRISTIAN, CURMUDGEON AT LARGE)
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Subject: RE: (2869) Fact or Fiction Medical Story?
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Re; Speed of results:

I spoke to one of the co-ordinators of blood analysis at one of the
local hospital's today. She tells me that certain HIV related test
results can, in emergencies, be available in 12 hours. She did not
specify which ones.

There seem to be all sorts of apocryphal stories about doctors taking
blood in their offices in the morning and phoning patients with the
results in the afternoon. No doctor I haev spoken to has ever known
of such a case.

Perhaps the speed of response is just another panic oriented
literary device.

Douglass