Clinic Wrongly Told Him He Was HIV-Positive

DC Man Files Lawsuit Claiming Whitman-Walker Clinic Wrongly Told Him He Was HIV-Positive

WASHINGTON - A D.C. man says he walked around for five years thinking he was HIV-positive when he was actually not. Terry Hedgepeth says he was misdiagnosed in 2000 by the Whitman-Walker Clinic. He says the misdiagnosis drove him into a deep depression.

In 2005, a friend suggested he seek holistic healing. He went to the Abundant Life Center where he was tested and told he was HIV-negative. A third round of testing at Johns Hopkins confirmed it. Hedgepeth launched a lawsuit, but it was thrown out because the law said you could only sue if there was physical injury. Then just last week, a D.C. Appeals Court expanded the law to include emotional injury and gave Hedgepeth the green light to sue.

A lawyer for Whitman-Walker released a statement saying they are looking carefully at the ruling before making their next move in the pending legal matter.

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[tealmarlin]

Did they give him another test after he had sex with the hiv positive women?

[rethinkingAIDS]

@tealmarlin Yes negative

[Sweetjessica024]

@rethinkingAIDS I dont understand did he use a condom???? it make people confuse?

[rethinkingAIDS]

@Sweetjessica024 no idea if he used condoms?

[seand67]

I hope he gets a GREAT settlement. Sorry azz clinic

[stupidgenius61]

youtube search AIDS Inc. by Gary Null and you will learn a lot more about this phantom "killer" virus.

[ciarawannabe8]

@ricci1007 honey which world do you live in..you should see hiv positive patients

[tabamoura]

@daisy752 According to a report by researchers Norman Hearst and Stephen Hulley in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the odds of a heterosexual becoming infected with AIDS after one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse is one in 5 million.

[FashionFaceOffTv]

what is hiv

[daisy752]

Thank God he never caught it after sex with an HIV positive person! I can't believe that. Those doctors need to wake up or something. : (

[ScienceProjek]

@hivquestions Exactly. The enitre "HIV Thing" has so many areas that don't add up.

[hivorlive]

That's crazy. Lol