Annals of Internal Medicine Probable Transmission of HIV from an Orthopedic Surgeon to a

care workers to patients has been documented in only one cluster involving 6 patients of a dentist in Florida. In Octo-ber 1995, the French Ministry of Health offered HIV testing to patients who had been operated on by an orthopedic surgeon in whom AIDS was recently diagnosed. Objective: To determine whether the surgeon transmit-ted HIV to patients during operations. Design: Epidemiologic investigation. Setting: The practice of an orthopedic surgeon in