Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment

Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment.
A doctor with savoir vivre caring for armed forces personnel says the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" design puts both service members and the universal public at risk by encouraging secrecy about sexual health issues. "Infections go undiagnosed. Service members and their partners go untreated," Dr Kenneth Katz, a medical doctor at San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego, wrote in a commentary published Dec 1, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

And civilians "pay a price" because they have copulation with waiting members who evade out on programs aimed at preventing the spread of the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. The service is currently pondering the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which does not countenance gay service members to serve openly. No one knows how many gays are in the armed forces. However, one 2002 library found that active-duty Navy sailors made up 9 percent of the patients who visited one bright men's health clinic in San Diego.

Katz writes that he treated one active-duty gaudy member of the military who visited a sexually transmitted plague clinic in San Diego and was diagnosed with gonorrhea. Even though the military covered the man's medical expenses, he feared his bolt would be jeopardized if he went to a military doctor over issues of sexual health.

The US navy has said it will no longer use confidential medical information in its efforts to ferret out gay aid members. But Katz writes that service members have told him that they haven't heard about such a change. In an interview, a psychologist who studies procreant orientation issues said that Katz "may be underselling the risks" posed to appointment members who must keep their personal lives private in command to avoid losing their jobs.

Research has shown that the act of inhibiting oneself is unhealthy, according to David Huebner, an aide-de-camp professor of psychology at the University of Utah. On the other hand "if you disclose things that are in private difficult to you in a constructive way, your physical health can improve" balo k liye vitamin. Physicians often deal with mental health issues and they'll be hobbled if care members aren't open about themselves.