Useful Info wrote..., On 05/11/2007 04:40:

"Doctors warned Mr. Atkins, now 44, to tell sexual partners that
they might be at risk. ...  'Dismissed patient who doesn't seem
very concerned,' reads a notation in the records."

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And what did the doctor do about it besides making a little notation?
I'm pretty sure the Hippocratic Oath to "first do no harm" can be
extended to include the general public in addition to the individual
patient, on the grounds that failure to properly quarantine a
contagious patient causes harm to others.

Oh, and as I've mentioned before, cases like these are only ever
pursued by prosecutors when the victims are either women or minors.
In this case it was a 15-year-old boy that forced prosecutors to press
charges, and even then they were only allowed to reveal the man's
HIV+ status to the jury AFTER he was convicted, and only to help
decide his sentence for molesting the kid.  He really wasn't convicted
of transmitting HIV at all, just child molestation.  And the only
other case I know of involved another high school boy in Nevada, and
it was also only pursued because he was a minor AND his father was a
famous radio show host so the publicity forced prosecutors to pursue
the case, and they did manage to successfully use the HIV transmission
law to convict him.