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Volume 355:2273-2275 November 30, 2006 Number 22 Next

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In 1995, Constance Wofsy, who had been a leader in San Francisco's response to AIDS in the 1980s, recalled the way she and other physicians had been drawn to the nascent epidemic. "How gripped we were," she said, "How separate we were from everyone who wasn't part of the thing. There were the involved and uninvolved, and they just didn't understand one another."

In July, a tape recording of these recollections, made a year before Wofsy's death, was heard by 17 doctors who had come together in New York to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Bayer is a professor at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York. Dr. Oppenheimer is a professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and an associate professor of clinical public health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.

Interviews with Drs. El-Sadr and Oleske can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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