328 Patients Notified Doctor Has AIDS
Health officials have begun notifying 328 patients of an AIDS-infected physician that he may have spread the deadly disease to them through a skin rash on his hands.
The patients Dr. Philip Benson treated at three clinics in the Minneapolis area from May, 1990, until February of this year included 38 infants he delivered.
The Minnesota Health Department said letters advising the patients to take an AIDS tests went out this past weekend. The patients involved were singled out because they received invasive treatment in which the physician’s hands may have spread the infection.
Benson, 39, said he was diagnosed as having AIDS last September. He said the rash has since been cleared up and he plans to continue treating patients in non-invasive ways.
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