For Dr. Radford Yates, the conversation usually begins one of two ways.
Some patients come with questions about abnormal liver test results.
Risk factors for contracting hepatitis C include intravenous drug use, blood transfusions before 1992, tattoos, cocaine use and sexual promiscuity. It can be a tricky talk. They are difficult questions, but we have to go over it. The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates hepatitis C has infected 4 million people in the United States. About 70 percent of them do not know they've been infected.