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July 26th, 2012
Pigs are Flying: Written Consent No Longer Needed for an HIV Test in Massachusetts
Let the record show that as of July 26, 2012, a person in Massachusetts can legally get an HIV test without signing a written consent.
Hooray.
There, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
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Paul E. Sax, MD
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Yes, hooray…
Soon Massachusetts would enable buying alcohol on Sundays before noon, having a picnic on the river with a transparent glass of wine and some other things which are so normal in the rest of the world, and without the need of professors at Harvard excitingly saying hooray. The most advanced science in the most pagan state – a very weird combination
Paul, thanks for all your hard work on this for so many years. It wouldn’t have happened without your persistence.