DADT Harmful to Health, Doctor Says 

The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy leads to the spread of disease and puts the health of service members at risk, a doctor says in a new commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Military personnel afraid of being honest about their sexual history to military physicians often don't seek treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and may spread them to others, Kenneth Katz writes.

"The consequences of 'don't ask, don't tell' are clear. Infections go undiagnosed. Service members and their partners go untreated," wrote Katz, an STD specialist in San Diego County's Health and Human Services Agency.

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