Working on a Miracle

In 1993, while performing a routine autopsy on an AIDS patient, neuropathologist Dr. Mahlon Johnson punctured his hand and contracted the AIDS virus. As an academic physician at a major medical research hospital, he was uniquely aware of the terrors that he faced--but he was also uniquely qualified to try to save his own life. Guided by data and advice from the top AIDS researchers in the country, he made himself a guinea pig, experimenting with an aggressive treatment regimen combining differen…