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In a message dated 04/09/96 10:01:47, Prit Buttar writes >A patient of ours who is about to go to medical school has >been informed by her medical school that she has to >produce a laboratory result showing that she is free from >Hep B infection. We have agreed to do the lab >investigations, but intend to bill her medical school. Any >thoughts/comments about the ethics of this? > > I had understood that, following an attempted fraud, the medical schools were responsible for checking the hep B status of students on entry. There have been several recent articles in the BMJ on this problem, the relevant references are no doubt available from the medline. Check with the student health service of the university what they are doing and if they are prepared to pay. Trefor Roscoe Email; [log in to unmask] Beighton Health Centre Tel 0114 - 269 5061 Queens Road, Beighon Fax 0114 - 269 7186 Sheffield S19 6BJ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%