title: Providers with HIV/AIDS--a new dilemma.
abstract: Recently, a great deal of attention has been focused on health care providers who have or may have the human immunodeficiency virus or, as it is known in its later stages, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This article explores some of the duties physicians have, or soon may have, to their patients and employers in the areas of testing, disclosure, and practice restraints.
authors.affiliation: Health Law Reimbursement Division, Rifkin, Evans, Silver & Rozner, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karker-Jennings
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Berkey
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000175:diagnosis; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients; D010820:Physicians; D014342:Truth Disclosure