A Case about HIV and Confidentiality DQ
A Case about HIV and Confidentiality DQ
The case includes a 21-year-old male, Carlos, who’s about to finish
his hospital
keep for gunshot wounds and obtain nursing care at house from
his sister, Consuela.
Secretly gay and involved about shame inside his
household, Carlo
pleads with the attending doctor to not inform his sister that he
(Carlos) is HIV constructive.
But not informing Consuela would appear to extend her danger of
contracting
HIV whereas attending to his wounds.
Questions:
Would Carlos’s doctor be morally justified in breaching affected person
confidentiality on the grounds
that he had a “responsibility to warn”?
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