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Cliff Morrison Quotes

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Cliff Morrison is an activist and a nurse who established the first hospital ward for treating AIDS patients in the United States. Ward 5B was established in San Francisco General Hospital in 1983.

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I would go in patients' rooms and you could tell that they hadn't had a bath. They weren't being taken care of.

The stigmatization extended far beyond the illness itself, Cliff explains. “It was as if the door to darkness had been opened and all the taboos were out there—sex, death, homosexuality, drug use ... Things that people had never heard discussed openly before.”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cliff Morrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.