Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment

Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment.
A doctor with involvement caring for armed forces personnel says the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" tactic puts both service members and the encyclopaedic 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 bonking with worship members who misconstrue out on programs aimed at preventing the spread of the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as other sexually transmitted diseases, Katz wrote. The soldierly is currently pondering the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which does not tolerate gay service members to serve openly. No one knows how many gays are in the armed forces. However, one 2002 work found that active-duty Navy sailors made up 9 percent of the patients who visited one homosexual men's health clinic in San Diego.

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

The US military has said it will no longer use confidential medical information in its efforts to ferret out many-coloured service 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 sensuous orientation issues said that Katz "may be underselling the risks" posed to aid members who must keep their personal lives unsociable in order to avoid losing their jobs.

Research has shown that the act of inhibiting oneself is unhealthy, according to David Huebner, an underling professor of psychology at the University of Utah. On the other hand, he said, "if you fink things that are personally difficult to you in a constructive way, your physical health can improve" pill larder. Physicians often deal with nuts health issues, Heubner added, and they'll be hobbled if service members aren't establish about themselves.