Now let's go see our first patient. Here's some information about the patient I gathered from his chart and my conversation with him earlier.

Name: William
Age: 55
Marital Status: married
Children: 2
Substance Use: drinks occasionally, smokes cannabis 1x per month, is willing to stop alcohol
Other Drug Use: none
Contracted Hepatitis C: briefly experimented with drug use many years ago
Candidate for Treatment: genotype is 2a, elevated LFTs, HCV RNA greater than 850,000 iu/ml liver biopsy grade 2, stage 4