Standard of Care

Should one Patient have different treatment than another? In most cases the answer is NO. For instance...2 men come in with the same knee problem, should one get better treatment from staff because he has more money or power in the community? No...They should both be treated the same. Standard of care is something that should apply to all patients. It does not matter if you are rich or poor, you should get the same patient care and patient safety. When does it differ? I would say in the instance of communicable disease. Airborne communicable diseases should make the standard of care change but not in the meaning that one would get better care over the one that has the disease but rather, more care should be taken so not to spread the disease. Take for example; you have a patient that has Tuberculosis and a patient that doesn't, both patients are to receive the same procedure but the TB patient is going first. If another room is available for use then the following patients procedure should be done in another room so that the preceding patients room can be terminally cleaned. In an operating room setting there should be air exchanges taking place so as to not spread the disease. You are not compromising the standard of care in this instance...Nor are you doing so in wearing a special mask or even having the TB patient wear a special mask. You are also not compromising the standard of care by keeping contact of that patient limited. What you are doing is helping to not spread communicable disease. Am I wrong in my thinking?
Sound off...