Dr. Jay A Jacobson MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
8th Ave & C Street Lds Hospital Salt Lake City UT, 84143About
Dr. Jay Jacobson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Jacobson specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ of Fl Coll of Med, Gainesville Fl 1971
University of Florida College of Medicine 1971
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Network news: the Bioethics Network of Ohio (BENO); West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees; Orange County Bioethics Network; the Division of Medical Ethics: Department of Internal Medicine at the LDS Hospital and University of Utah School of Medi
- Medical ethics and family affairs.
- Keeping the patient in the loop: ethical issues in outpatient referral and
- How infectious diseases got left out--and what this omission might have meant for bioethics.
- The effect of patients' noncompliance on their surgeons' obligations.
- Should rapid tests for HIV infection now be mandatory during pregnancy? Global differences in scarcity and a dilemma of technological advance.
- The effect of patients' noncompliance on their surgeons' obligations.
- Residents' role in immunizing adults: rationale, opportunity, obstacles, and strategies.
- A Surgeon with HIV.
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