My patients fought Aids, I fought the system
Cliff Morrison was a nurse in San Francisco during the Aids crisis when he established a special ward with a revolutionary new approach to caring for patients with HIV/Aids.
Cliff Morrison moved to San Francisco to work as a nurse in the late 1970s, when people around him started dying from a mystery illness. It was the beginning of the Aids epidemic and Cliff found himself on the frontline. He saw how Aids patients were discriminated against and kept in isolation, so he established a special ward where he pioneered a new compassionate approach to caring for them. Cliff went on to implement that model in hospitals across the world.
Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Harry Graham & Tom Roseingrave
Photo: Cliff Morrison
Credit: 5B Film
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