Subject: Acer Infection Case Story
Date: Published: 11/7/91 (32 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    LEISURE & ARTS:
    TV:  Stars in Wartime; a Celebration of Doris Day
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    By Dorothy Rabinowitz

                       Friday, Nov. 8
                    Investigative Reports
    This a sharp overview of the case of the Florida dentist
 who infected several patients with the HIV virus.  In it we
 meet one of the less publicized of Dr. Acer's now infected
 former patients, a grandmotherly teacher of English who tells
 -- with calm and deadly eloquence -- of her determination to
 spend her days campaigning for mandatory testing.  Those who
 take the other side -- against testing for health care
 workers -- have a hard row to hoe here, against such
 combatants.  Their position is not much advanced by the
 advocate from the ACLU, who dithers on about a subject in
 which the ACLU has always long considered itself expert,
 i.e., "the greater good of society."  This spokeswoman
 confidently insists, moreover, that the risk of infection is
 infinitesimal even if blood-to-blood contact has occurred.
 That should certainly be a comfort to the patients infected
 by Dr. Acer.
    9-10 p.m. EST, on A&E. 

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