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Before You Get Surgery How Come You Have to Sign a Consent for HIV and Drug Abuse?

Question by HAKEEM: before you get surgery how come you have to sign a consent for HIV and drug abuse?
when i got surgery i had to sign a consent form bout hiv and drug abuse, why is that?

Best answer:

Answer by Reknaw133
I think it’s because the equipement is cleaned and reusable. Somebody with HIV or a history of IV drug abuse would require disposable equipment.

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Franklinton Center Rescues Troubled Youths

Franklinton center rescues troubled youths

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Tara Conkey, 19, right, gets help from tutor Barb Hegler in writing a research paper for her high-school diploma through eCOT, an online school, at Central Ohio Youth for Christ's City Life Center in Franklinton. By JoAnne Viviano. The Columbus …
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Signs of shopping addiction and how to break the obsession

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Prescription Monitoring Programs Help Fight Prescription Drug Abuse

Prescription Monitoring Programs help fight prescription drug abuse

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For that reason a growing alliance of states are joining hands to help reduce the opportunities of prescribed medications from becoming a drug abuse problem. But for some, the idea of limiting access to pain medication may seem more like a "hinderance" …
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Letter: Legalized marijuana would be disastrous

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Drug Tested at Scottsdale Healthcare Shows Encouraging Results

Drug tested at Scottsdale Healthcare shows encouraging results

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So it's big news for patients, families, physicians, and other healthcare providers that a drug called Abraxane(R), combined with a standard cancer treatment, shrank tumors in about half of a group of 44 Scottsdale Healthcare patients in the late …
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Prescription Drug Use on the Rise Among Teens

Prescription drug use on the rise among teens

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Teens are finding increasingly clever ways to abuse commonly-prescribed drugs such as Xanax, Adderall and pain pills, Terry Childers, a representative from Bradford Health Services, told a small group of parents Thursday at the Columbia County …
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Their View: Multifaceted approach needed to reduce prescription drug abuse

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Guest Column: Parents Must Be Involved in Combatting Substance Abuse

Guest column: Parents must be involved in combatting substance abuse

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After more than two decades of serving as the director of Libertas and as I approach retirement, there are several things I wish to share about the substance abuse problem in our community and how parents can be the anti-drug in an addictive world …
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