Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Testing

Fairly soon, now, you may be able to get a test to detect the presence of HIV (as now: due to the presence of antibodies) at your walk-in clinic, at your dentist, in the hospital and at your primary care provider...

Yes - everybody will soon be able to have testing... MAYBE even without asking for it: It COULD be that folks will automatically have an HIV test unless they specifically ask not to have that included with regular laboratory blood work.

Is that the face of the future? Is that the right direction in which to move forward? Is the balance of society's larger need great enough that people should be subjected to a test that may occur without their realizing it because for the greater good, it's better that we all know... Or is that a step too far?