APPLICATION OF M.S. HERSHEY MED. CTR.


407 Pa.Super. 565 (1991)

595 A.2d 1290

In re Application of the MILTON S. HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER OF the PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY. Appeal of John DOE, M.D. In re Application of the HARRISBURG HOSPITAL. Appeal of John DOE, M.D.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce E. Cooper, Harrisburg, for appellant.

Richard M. Faulkner, State College, and Thomas B. Schmidt, III, Harrisburg, for appellee.

Scott Burris, Philadelphia, amicus curiae.

Before CAVANAUGH, WIEAND and POPOVICH, JJ.


POPOVICH, Judge:

This appeal involves a delicate issue of first impression in this Commonwealth. We are asked to decide whether the trial court correctly permitted two hospitals to disclose the identity of a member of their staffs who tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The physician, whose pseudonym John Doe has become familiar to this Court,1 was an obstetrics/gynecology resident working alternately between the...

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