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Duty to treat or right to refuse? (physician treatment of HIV-positive patients)
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The Hastings Center Report
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March 1, 1991
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1991 Hastings Center. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Duty to Treat or Right to Refuse?
Although AIDS is novel, one of the moral problem it poses is not: Do physicians and other health care workers have a moral duty to treat HIV patients despite the risks of contagion? This question was thrust into public consciousness in the late 1980s. A world-famous heart surgeon proclaimed that he would not operate on HIV-positive patients; and Dr. Lorraine Day, an orthopedic surgeon in San Francisco, loudly protested in the newspapers and on TV the high risks she faced. [1] The question became real for me when a dinner I was enjoying with Peter, a surgeon, was interrupted by a phone call asking him to operate on a patient with a ...
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