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It is a perverse reaction, but one that I notice myself having more and more frequently these days. After all, it should not still be happening, not here in America, and most definitely not in Boston, where we probably have more HIV research laboratories and epidemiologists per square inch than anyplace else in the world. Yet here she is, with her squirming, beet-faced toddler on her lap, a metaphor for my unwillingness to give her the result. Behind her, a vast, bottomless, horribly red poppy in a print of the famous Georgia O'Keeffe painting threatens to inundate us, like some . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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(Identifying details about the patient have been changed to protect her privacy.)

From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston.

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