While working as an emergency department nurse in the South Bronx, now-reporter Sibyl Shalo Wilmont stuck herself with a needle filled with blood from a patient with hepatitis C. This essay describes how she came to decide not to undergo the post-exposure prophylactic treatment suggested by the employee health physician. The decision was based on the experiences of two nurses that she'd interviewed for an article on this very subject published years ago in the American Journal of Nursing.
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