Jewish Law and the Obligation of the Physician to Heal Patients With AIDS

Abstract

We disclosed 19 such cases, one ofwhich was the patient described by Garry et al and previously reported by Elvin-Lewis et al3 and Witte et al.4We hope that the retrospective documentation of AIDS virus infection in this patient, as well as a recent finding of positive serological tests for human immunodeficiency virus in another case of "probable AIDS in the pre-AIDS era,"6,6 may encourage other physicians who treated patients included in our re¬ views2,6 to search for serological evi¬ dence ofhuman immunodeficiency virus infection in stored specimens from these patients.