The Nation - News from July 7, 1987

County officials voted 14 to 2 to allow an AIDS-stricken physician to continue seeing patients at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, but barred him from performing “invasive procedures” such as hypodermic injections and throat, rectal and vaginal examinations. On Feb. 9, the county board voted to prohibit the doctor, whose identity has not been made public, from having direct contact with patients, but the decision was overidden by the hospital’s executive medical staff. The physician has voluntarily refrained from invasive procedures.