I work at a doctors office.
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Fortunately, there are effective medications for it. All doctors are exposed to TB beginning in med school. Negative TB skin tests are positive in most students by the senior year. Those are all the rights you have.
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Depends on your work place policy regarding whether or not you needed to be immunised against this. You would need to prove that they were negligent and failed in their duty of care to you by knowing that you could come into contact with a person with TB. You need to prove that the TB you have has been directly caused from this patient and not a pre-existing condition you already had. Anybody who works in a place where they come into contact with people with contagious diseases should be offered immunisation.
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Hi. This is a little bit complicated. As a healthcare worker, the patient, disease prevention and control is your responsibility. Its also your responsibility to protect yourself from infections. Thats why there are all sorts of protective equipment for the healthcare workers.(Gloves, masks, gowns, eye protection). The patient has no legal obligations in this matter. If you worked with the patient then i think you should have known that he had TB and taken steps to protect yourself and the general public. Thats the liability of being a health care provider. Unless the patient intentionally gave you something, then you cant do anything. They are protected by the patients bill of rights and the ethical and professional code of conduct for the healthcare provider. The other csenario is that you could have put other patients at risk for exposing yourself to a known TB case without the right protective equipment. I think that would be termed as negligence.
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In most courtiers, if a patient behaves irresponsibly or is suspected to he will be isolated. In south Africa he is free to infect the entire south Africa and nothing may be done
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