A $10,000 judgment was entered against a plastic surgeon for performing an illegal HIV test on a patient. Douglas W. Wooldridge agreed to pay Jason Gavann the money in an offer of judgment...

A $10,000 judgment was entered against a plastic surgeon for performing an illegal HIV test on a patient. Douglas W. Wooldridge agreed to pay Jason Gavann the money in an offer of judgment. . . . The complaint, filed earlier, alleged that during surgery Dr. Wooldridge took a sample of Gavann’s blood and sent it to a laboratory for an HIV test. Gavann stated that he was unconscious during surgery and that his blood had been tested for HIV without his knowledge. Gavann said he inadvertently discovered the HIV test result in his medical file during a follow-up visit at Wooldridge’s office several weeks later. The HIV test was negative. Wooldridge claimed, in a deposition, that he had stuck himself with a needle and feared HIV” (Peratta, 1996, p. 1). Develop arguments on both sides of the question. Should health care deliverers know the HIV status of their patients prior to invasive procedures?