Doe v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fallon, J.
On August 21, 1988, Jane Doe, a registered nurse at Faxton Hospital in Utica, was stuck by a needle contaminated with the blood of an AIDS patient. The patient, an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility, was receiving medication and fluids intravenously. As he became increasingly agitated and irrational, he removed his oxygen mask and dislodged the needle leading to the Hep-Lock port on the intravenous apparatus installed on his left arm. Following a grand-mal seizure apparently induced by a lack of oxygen, the patient became even more combative. While…
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