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To the Editor.—The sentiment of Dr Rogers in his COMMENTARY/CARING FOR THE POOR entitled "Caring for the Patient With AIDS"1 is as noble and sincere as his content is, in part, misguided.Dr Rogers is correct in noting that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a truly dreadful reality with which we all must come to terms as this century draws to a close. In individual human terms it has exacted a degree of suffering that no one, either in the health care field or among the lay public, could ever have imagined in modern times. In social terms, it is pressing society to deal with a burden of overwhelming dimension that, until fairly recently, it has chosen largely to ignore.The degree of hysteria that has developed in conjunction with the emergence of the epidemic into mainstream awareness is perhaps not surprising, even to the extent that it has |
