Health PEI is discouraging Island doctors from ordering diagnostic tests which officials say are unnecessary, but some people think the health authority is going too far.
Thirty-one-year-old Story Wight asks every year to be tested for HIV and hepatitis. She’s had multiple sex partners, frequently gets tattooed and believes she’s at risk. But this year her doctor told her the annual testing would stop.
“I was told this would be the last time that they would do it for me, because it was really expensive, and they didn’t feel that I was high-risk enough to get that test,” said Wight.
“I shouldn’t have to try to convince my doctor that I deserve to be able to be responsible.”
CBC News
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