Donald G. Hagan; Physician Forced by AIDS to Quit Practice
Donald G. Hagan, 46, a physician who was forced to abandon his Orange County practice when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and then became a leading spokesman for equal rights for AIDS victims. Hagan, whose honors include awards from the AIDS Service Foundation of Orange County and the Orange County Human Relations Commission, was a specialist in family medicine who stopped practicing in 1988 but began to speak about AIDS to various groups, which he said “helped me keep my identity.” On Saturday in Laguna Beach of AIDS.
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