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| | AAOS On-Line Service Opinion on Ethics and Professionalism - Sexual Misconduct in the Physician-Patient Relationship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Therefore, before initiating a dating, romantic, or sexual relationship with a patient, a physician's minimum duty is to properly terminate his or her professional relationship with the patient. |
 | | Sexual contact between a physician and a patient with whom professional relations have been terminated would be unethical if the sexual contact occurred as a result of the use or exploitation of trust, knowledge, influence or emotions derived from the former professional relationship. |
 | | Sexual misconduct is unlikely to be brought to the attention of the proper authorities by a patient because of the feelings of shame, humiliation, degradation, and self-blame. |
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