Do infectious disease specialists always check for HIV?
it sounds like you’re interested or concerned about your HIV status – its very easy to find local anonymous testing sites, or just ask your family doctor to run a test for you. with regard to your question, ID guys always consider the possibility of HIV, and in any mysterious pneumonia, it would be routine to test for it. However, you would have to sign for consent to do that test — even though it should have been done in your case, if you did not sign a consent, then that means it wasn’t done. Sure the ID guy would have been looking for physical signs to tip off to HIV infection – but those are unreliable, and if he had any concern the only thing to do is run an antibody test.
