weird rules for HIV patients...

There’s a weird rule of the government where if a patient wants, he/she can ask the doctor to not disclose his/her HIV status to his / her spouse…!!!! We have faced this problem many times during our post graduation years… we have come across not only men but even women who have turned out to be HIV +ve and then have asked us not to disclose this to their spouse, thus endangering and sort of ‘helping’ him/her to create one more HIV patient or maybe even more through their children… but then who can put this in the head of the non medical persons (morons) sitting at the head of the government and human rights organizations… when we look at the unsuspected spouse of the HIV +ve person we feel so sad for the person and are often filled with rage against the patient…but then nothing more can be done… would like to know comment of the readers regarding this…

risks at work...

Many a times I used to think about how stressed out doctors become during managing a patient because the patient has put his faith and life in our hands… it causes great stress whn we know that the patients life is in our hands… thinking this I used to feel there’s no job as stressful as this because others life depends on us…
Just yesterday lights had gone in our area as some tree had fallen down and uprooted an electric pole… the electrician was workin in the transformer area as I looked on… many a times small sparks flew here and there… I realized one small mistake and it could result in the death of the person…
Thinking over it I began to wonder which profession was more stressful.. one where others life is at risk or where your own life is at a risk…!!!