ABSTRACT
Dr. Lois Dorsey, a psychiatry resident, was paged by an intern from the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) for an emergency psychiatric consultation. Gary Davidson, a twenty-eight-year-old gay man, had been hospitalized eleven days before for a first episode of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). One week earlier he had been told that the presumptive diagnosis for his illness was Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
