Examples of Fatalism
•We just heard the statistics that something like 9 cities across the United States—something like 10-15% of all new infections are people getting infected with drug resistant virus. So the people that are giving the virus to these people already know they’re infected and they’re already taking medications. So these are our patients that we teach and instruct on a daily basis who are going out and infecting other patients. In some regards, I think it’s like almost hopeless to try to change people’s sexual behavior, I shouldn’t say that but, you know, that’s basically what my feeling is.
• --Nurse practitioner