title: Confidentiality in the age of AIDS.
abstract: Confidentiality is a fundamental rule of medicine and has been specifically defined in many codes of medical ethics. A changing clinical environment both because of diseases such as AIDS, which were not anticipated when these clinical codes were created, and because of the changing relationship between the physician, the patient, and the payor for the physician's care creates dilemmas concerning the rule of confidentiality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Benrubi
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D003219:Confidentiality; D016358:Contact Tracing; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D037141:Mandatory Programs; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D018570:Risk Assessment