 [ Symptoms ] does your spouses doctor have to inform you that your spouse has an std other than hiv  my spouse and i share the same primary care md he knows about my husbands affairs and he is prescribed antibiotics to him more than once [ Disease ] because of strict hippa privacy rules a medical provider is prohibited by law from revealing any medical information to another person including a wife just because your husband was prescribed antibiotics in no way implies that he is being treated for an std