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The New York Times - November 17, 1984
"This is a very unusual circumstance," said the hospital's public relations director, Carolyn Walden.
The patient, identified only as John, told The Boston Globe that he had been about to undergo a biopsy of the lymph tissue when a young resident, Dr. Richard Freeman, ordered him to leave the hospital.
"He told me I had to get out," the patient said. "To put my clothes on and and get out. He told me it was because of the nature of my problem and the suspicion I had AIDS that I could be contaminating the other patients."
Dr. Freeman, reached this morning, refused to talk, referring all questions to the hospital spokesman, who said the doctor had "misunderstood" the hospital's AIDS policy.
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