This is in keeping with current marital trends. Who’s better at understanding the stresses and strains of a physician’s life than another physician? Luckily, there are more female surgeons than there have been before, so there are more around to marry.
[Serious] ethic question: where’s the line on dating PAST patients?
She recovered well and got discharged. Then I went on to cardiology for my next rotation and one of my colleagues said unfortunately she was readmitted a few days later for another condition but I was not involved for this second admission. She then got discharged again from the hospital.
Hence, in my book, I think you could pursue this if you want although you do need to be careful, and getting your PD’s input will be helpful. It came up in an early ethics small group when I was in med school. The tricky issue was if you’re literally the only doctor in a given area. Everyone could be your patient, so the rules get a little more lenient.
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Just think of her as either a felon, murderer, clinically insane, married, shameless golddigger, or having six kids . Should help you nope out of situation pretty quickly. Accepting the small Hily price risk that he will try to murder me for doing so, I called the board to let them know he is lying to his current patients as to the reason he is no longer able to continue practicing.
Good grief, I just realized that you’re still a resident. Even more reason to stay the hell away from this person. Also consider that many states are now passing laws that actually criminalize this behavior as sexual assault or battery. Do NOT talk to your PD since this info can be used against you later in any professionalism claim.
I don’t know if it’s illegal, but pretty unethical and very dangerous. There are plenty of non-patient fish in the sea. Lets stick to facts, a doctor will lose his license if he does something illegal with his medical privileges like this link describes. But theres no problem for a doctor to develop a relationship with someone who was once a patient.
“Male practitioners are more likely to be involved in relationships with multiple patients or clandestine relationships with patients. Pleasedo not use this form to submit personal or patient medical information or to report adverse drug events. You are encouraged to report adverse drug event information to the FDA. Ultimately, while the AMA doesn’t explicitly bar physicians from relationships with their former patients, a physician who engages in one may be walking an ethical tightrope. It’s far wiser to avoid ever crossing that line. Physicians are even expected to draw the line at other nonclinical contact with their patients whenever there’s a fear that such contact could be perceived as romantic or might lead to romance.
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If doing so, physicians must explain to the patient who the third party is. If the patient declines, physicians must consider whether to proceed with the examination based on the best interests of the patient, including whether the examination is urgently required. Ensuring that the gown or draping adequately covers the area of the patient’s body that is not actively under examination. Providing patients with a gown or drape during the physical examination or procedure if clothing needs to be removed, and only exposing the area specifically related to the physical examination or procedure.
Have we forgotten the above reference – transference of feelings rather then true feelings. “They were much more likely than male health practitioners to characterise what was happening as a romance, as okay,” she said. Commenting is limited to medical professionals. It’s tempting to attribute the attitudinal shift to the changing face of the physician workforce, but the numbers don’t bear that out. Overall, younger doctors ― under the age of 45 ― are more opposed to the idea of romance than their older colleagues.
Romantic or sexual interactions between physicians and patients that occur concurrently with the patient physician relationship are unethical. Physicians’ obligations to establish and maintain appropriate boundaries with patients are not limited to sexual interactions. And to address your point CityLights, I actually disagree with you on this one.
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As some of my fellow shrinks have said above, for us it’s a lifetime ban. I honestly feel like it should be that way for any type of physician. OP I look forward to your inevitable future post where you ask for advice after the state board takes some sort of action against your license. Participating in their ICU care would make me wonder if there was an element of hero worship factoring in to the feelings and I wouldn’t think it ethical to exploit that. Not something I would consider worth the potential bad fallout if things go poorly even if it was considered ethical.
Romantic relationship with former patient: Drawing the line from the start
Not because they’re bad people, but because there is a line called “professional decorum”. It’s like me being pals with some of my students. Once they graduate, I treat them as peers, and then we can be pals,.
Even without any of this, if this relationship becomes ugly it could blow back on you because there’s always some privacy boundaries that physicians cross when caring for patients. Yea, I get these ethics questions wrong all the time – I always play hardball when it turns out the answer is more lenient and vice versa. Like how do you standardized social interactions – either you know how to be a decent human or you don’t.
