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A hospital is a place where people go to be cured of their illnesses. Every precaution is taken to make sure that each and every one of them remains as healthy as possible. If every provision is made to protect the patients then every provision should be made for the physicians and healthcare workers as well. That is why I believe physicians and healthcare workers should be allowed to know whether or not they are taking care of a patient with an incurable communicable disease (ICD) such as HIV, Hepatitis B & C. Twenty years ago it was legal to post on the patients charts the ICD’s that they had. It wasn’t until HIV became a publicized disease that patients decided to raise this very issue. I believe that this information needs to be released for the safety of not only the doctors but the patients as well. Many may argue that the doctors may treat the patient differently if they release this information, but it is the right of the physician, for their own safety, to know if the patient has such a disease. This information is not only important for the doctors but for the patient themselves. Seeing as how HIV patients h