(I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do:breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals

Biggs, Hazel and Ost, Suzanne (2015) (I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do:breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals. In: Pioneering healthcare law. Routledge, London, pp. 91-102. ISBN 9781138861091

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Abstract

Although doctors have an ethical and professional obligation to refrain from breaching the sexual boundaries with their patients, research has demonstrated that the patients can also sometimes be the initiators of unwanted sexual behaviour or consensual sexual boundary breaches. Informed by Brazier’s concerns about the potential imbalance between patients’ rights and health care professionals’ responsibilities, this chapter argues that, whilst the need to maintain sexual boundaries in heath care professional-patient relationships is a matter of professional accountability, if such breaches are deliberately initiated by the patient, they too should bear some moral responsibility. We explore such breaches by patients and consider the appropriate legal and ethical response.

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?? SEXUAL BOUNDARY BREACHESDOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPPATIENT INITIATED SEXUAL BOUNDARY BREACHESRECIPROCITY OF OBLIGATIONK LAWR MEDICINE ??
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79977
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Deposited On:
09 Jun 2016 10:02
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