"We had a lot of problems in the first days keeping this kid alive," Tobias Hirsch, one of the treating physicians, recalled in a conference call with reporters this week.
Dr Marcus Conant, a clinical professor of dermatology emeritus at UC San Francisco and one of the first physicians to diagnose and treat Aids, recalled the Reagans' dismissal of his concerns.
Dr. Kevin O'Flaherty, an audiologist who treated her, recalled the time Mrs. Astor told him she would throw a party in his honor to which he could invite 10 people.
Ms. Fernandez learned early on that not everyone was treated equally, recalling how, as the daughter of a supervisor, she was not supposed to play with the laborers' children.
"Before the UNICEF programme started in 2009, people did not have access to the special type of food needed to treat malnutrition," recalls Dr. Nana Pamela, a paediatrician at Guider.
"Life was treating me grand," recalled Mr. Tenaglia, 48, of Garden City.
Horrific details emerged as a medic recalled treating Ben Mullany as the injured man desperately tried to communicate with emergency workers.
She recalled treating a woman who had a blood clot in her lungs and was in crisis.
In February, Dr Jiang released a letter to the Communist party in which he recalled treating dying students, who he said had patriotically been trying to improve their country.
Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas, who ran several pediatric AIDS units during the epidemic, recalled treating so-called AIDS babies in the mid-1980s at Harlem Hospital, many of whose mothers were often homeless drug addicts dying from AIDS.
