Is this a moral dilemma between autonomy and beneficence?

The vast majority of HIV-positive physicians contacted for this article discussed feeling some level of a moral dilemma regarding disclosing their health status. “I feel in a real quandary,” one cardiologist from Arizona states. “I feel that I owe it to the hospital, my patients, colleagues and partners in my practice to disclose, yet these feelings are in direct conflict with the realistic need for me to be self-protective.”

I do not feel like you need to discuss it with authorities or pt. People are far to discriminating and judgmental. As a physician you know the risks – or lack of – and you know how to keep everyone safe, so spare yourself the recriminations, and protect yourself and pt.

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