LETTER
Tuberculosis and the Health Care Worker
David Nicholson, MD
1 June 1994 | Volume 120 Issue 11 | Page 971
TO THE EDITOR:
C.T. Williams of the Brompton Hospital, London, may have averred in 1882 that consumption might not be contagious [1], but shortly thereafter the Board of Governors differed.
In the knowledge that diagnosis was imprecise and that many new employees were already infected, the Board provided and paid for a resident's health insurance policy with the Medical Sickness and Annuity Group. One was wise to continue the premiums afterward. Indeed, the Board went further and consolidated our good nutrition by providing each of us with a bottle of stout at dinner. Fortunately, my dinner partner, who was not at all a teetotaller, disliked stout!
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Little Rock, AR 72205
1. Sepkowitz KA. Tuberculosis and the health care worker: a historical perspective. Ann Intern Med. 1993; 120:71-9.
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