In re Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

POPOVICH, Judge:

This appeal involves a delicate issue of first impression in this Commonwealth. We are asked to decide whether the trial court correctly permitted two hospitals to disclose the identity of a member of their staffs who tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The physician, whose pseudonym John Doe has become familiar to this Court,1 was an obstetrics/gynecology resident working alternately between the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to the Pennsylvania State University (“Hershey Medical Center”) and the Harrisburg Hospital. Dr. Doe, during an *567invasive,…