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Physicians and AIDS : the ethical response. [videorecording]

[United States] : N. Baxley & Associates, c1991 2 videocassettes (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE AV/9200451A
Bartholome W; Johnson PB

Abstract: (Producer) Designed to serve as a model for physicians to help them resolve the underlying psychosocial conflicts that may contribute to their reluctance or refusal to provide care to patients with HIV infection. It acknowledges the physicians' concerns and provides an incentive for working through them and accepting seropositive patients who need their help. Part 1 dramatizes the dilemma of a surgeon on call who is asked by an internist to remove a gall bladder from a man with HIV infection. The camera follows the reluctant surgeon as he discusses his concerns with various colleagues who are more experienced with seropositive patients and tries to come to terms with his own reservations about doing the surgery. Part 2 contains interviews with physicians who have been treating patients with HIV infection for a long time. They discuss their own fears and feelings when they first started seeing these patients and offer valuable advice to colleagues who are wrestling with their consciences over this issue.
Keywords: *Ethics, Medical *HIV Infections *Refusal to Treat *Universal Precautions BOOK IN PARTSKWDethics,medicalKWDhivinfectionsKWDrefusaltotreatKWDuniversalprecautionsbookinparts
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