A Case about HIV and Confidentiality DQ
A Case about HIV and Confidentiality DQ
The case features a 21-year-old male, Carlos, who is about to end
his hospital
stay for gunshot wounds and receive nursing care at home from
his sister, Consuela.
Secretly homosexual and concerned about disgrace within his
family, Carlo
pleads with the attending physician not to inform his sister that he
(Carlos) is HIV positive.
Yet not informing Consuela would seem to increase her risk of
contracting
HIV while attending to his wounds.
Questions:
Would Carlos’s physician be morally justified in breaching patient
confidentiality on the grounds
that he had a “duty to warn”?
http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/confident
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