Physicians and AIDS: The Ethical Response
Produced by Norman Baxley and Associates, Inc.
Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health
Content Consultants:
William G. Bartholome, MD, MTS;
Philip B. Johnson, MD
In spite of ongoing efforts by hospitals, professional groups, and medical journals to educate health professionals about AIDS and the low risk of transmission in health care settings, the problem of their reluctance or refusal to treat seropositive patients remains. Recent assessments of professionals in New York City revealed four lingering psychosocial barriers to providing care to this patient population: realistic or unrealistic fear of contagion, confrontation with mortality, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, and feelings of revulsion toward the patients' lifestyles.
This two-part video
is designed to serve as a model for physicians to help them resolve these
underlying psychosocial conflicts that may contribute to their reluctance
or refusal to provide care. It will acknowledge the physicians' concerns
and provide an incentive for working through them and accepting seropositive
patients who need their help.
Part I 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.
Color, 20 minutes,
VHS, DVD
Price : $250.00
Part II interviews prominent physicians who have been treating patients with HIV infection for a long time.
Color 28 mintues,
VHS, DVD
Price : $250.00
Set of 2 videos
Color, 48 minutes, VHS, DVD
Price : : $450.00
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