The State - News from July 22, 1985
Startled by a patient’s remark that he had AIDS, a nurse who had just given him an injection accidentally stabbed her thumb with the needle. As a result, Chellie Skinner Sims, an emergency room nurse at Humana Hospital in San Leandro, is suing Dr. Jeffery Silvers, the patient’s doctor, for failing to warn her of the patient’s disease so that she could have taken precautions. The suit was filed in Alameda Superior Court. AIDS--acquired immune deficiency syndrome--can be transmitted through an exchange of body fluids and with intravenous needles. Sims says she now must live in fear of developing the disease, which has no cure.
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