Comments for Medical Malpractice - HIstory - Definitions and Related Diseases http://www.sicut.org Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Why Are You Not Sticking To Your Weight Loss Management by J http://www.sicut.org/14/why-are-you-not-sticking-to-your-weight-loss-management/#comment-2 J Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:07:24 +0000 http://www.sicut.org/?p=14#comment-2 I don't think they should be forced to retire. With as clean and sanitary as doctors have to be...I mean, he has to wear gloves all the time. He has to use hand sanitizer all the time...how is a patient going to come into contact with his bodily fluids? And like you said, patient to doctor transmission is more likely because a doctor could get poked with a needle or the patient could spit up blood into a doctor's eyes or an open wound. I also don't think he should have to tell his patients. Maybe if he were doing a procedure where it was possible it could be transmitted (if there are any). It's not like he's having sex with them. If there is no risk for the patient, the doctor telling would just be an invasion of his privacy. I don’t think they should be forced to retire. With as clean and sanitary as doctors have to be…I mean, he has to wear gloves all the time. He has to use hand sanitizer all the time…how is a patient going to come into contact with his bodily fluids? And like you said, patient to doctor transmission is more likely because a doctor could get poked with a needle or the patient could spit up blood into a doctor’s eyes or an open wound.

I also don’t think he should have to tell his patients. Maybe if he were doing a procedure where it was possible it could be transmitted (if there are any). It’s not like he’s having sex with them. If there is no risk for the patient, the doctor telling would just be an invasion of his privacy.

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