There are circumstances, such as an adult abusing a child, or threatening to harm himself or others, where the public safety has been deemed more important then maintaining an open venue of communication between a patient and a physician. In these cases, we can be held liable if we do not report.
There are also requirements to report infectious diseases, such as chlymadia (and I thought HIV also) to the health department. Physcians rarely do this themselves, but depend on the labs to do so. At least that is my understanding. Kevin On 12/19/05, Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:54, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > > Well, at the rate things are going, you may get your wish. I suspect > > patients > > will be loathe to discuss anything with their health care provider if things > > go the way you would like. > > > > So be it. That is a completely misplaced loyalty that your talking > about. Typhoid Mary killed a dozen people before she was wrestled to > the ground and removed from the public. > > Thousands of young girls at Woodhall hospital gave birth to HIV babies. > Young women, in their teens and twenties, in tears because their babies > were HIV+, not even realizing that this meant that THEY where HIV+, and > in almost EVERY CASE, infected by lovers and men that the authorities > KNEW were HIV+ > > All those women and babies died. They died because of a bunch fanatics > who talk about "Fighting AIDS" but who refuse to the authorities to do > what was necessary to actually save people from spreading it because GOD > FORBID someone will find out they are shooting dope or a homosexual. > . > Fighting disease is a public concern every day. This is especially true > of infective disease, but not limited to it. > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
