"Damages Claimed for AIDS Diagnosis"

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"Damages Claimed for AIDS Diagnosis"

New York Times (10/26/92), P. B8

Abstract: John Kuivenhoven has filed a suit against the Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization because for the past six years he has undergone AIDS treatments, although an H.I.V. test recently administered was negative. Kuivenhoven is suing for $2 million in lost wages, past and future medical costs, and damages for mental suffering in a binding arbitration case. Kuivenhoven went to a hospital affiliated with Kaiser complaining of respiratory problems in 1986. His doctor diagnosed a type of pneumonia associated with AIDS but did not give an H.I.V. test at the time. Kuivenhoven was considered at high-risk for AIDS because he is a homosexual. Kuivenhoven now lives on welfare and disability and suffers side-effects and addictions to treatment drugs. Kaiser noticed a discrepancy in his medical records and underwent H.I.V. testing in June 1992.

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