(ATN) San Francisco General Named Best AIDS Hospital

(ATN) San Francisco General Named Best AIDS Hospital

AIDS TREATMENT NEWS #132, August 9, 1991
John S. James

In a survey of leading physicians in 15 different specialities, published in the August 5 issue of U. S. News and World Report, AIDS specialists listed San Francisco General as the best hospital in the nation for AIDS treatment, giving it more than twice as many mentions as the next leading contender. Other hospitals listed as among the best for AIDS were University of California San Francisco Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, UCLA Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center.

The article quoted Paul Volberding, M. D., head of the AIDS program at San Francisco General, as saying that "We're happy to see patients from outside the area to review their records. We usually find the care they're getting is very good." Patients interested in such a review would need to obtain their records from their current physician(s), and make an appointment at San Francisco General Hospital by calling the AIDS clinic at 415/476-0828.

Comment

San Francisco General has been a leader in AIDS care and AIDS policy since the beginning of the epidemic, and its top rating is well deserved. But patients should realize that because of its status as a public institution, San Francisco General must use mainstream treatments, plus any experimental treatments it is testing. It is not free to send patients to buyers' clubs or other "alternative" treatment sources, and therefore is not likely to consider these options even when leading private-practice physicians might do so.

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