Having a Relationship with a Patient

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@amygarside,

why not?

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@shelljon,

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why not?

Since you've asked "Why not?"...I know that you're not a health care professional.

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@Miller,

That's kind of a non-answer right there.

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@Miller,

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I know that you're not a health care professional.

The rights of adults to form relationships should not lightly be interfere with so somehow a nurse or a nurse aid who take your blood pressure before you see a doctor should not be ban from dating a patient for example.

We then go to a GP who provide routine medical care to his or her patients. I frankly do not see why such a person should be ban from dating an adult patient.

Only when you go into medical relationships that have counselling elements involved or dealing with someone not a fully function adults should there be limits to private relationships at least in my opinion.

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Only after he's all healed up Smile

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@amygarside,

While the person is a patient?

I wouldn't recommend it as a general principle.

There could be exceptions, but I'd think it would be best until there wasn't a clinical relationship.

I know in some facilities it is considered a firing offence.

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@amygarside,

It's not right... I am not a nurse but I work at a hospital. Number 1. You are bound to give him special treatment or one time ir another which would not be right. Number 2. You are bound to talk about him to your friends, and if he is a patient that is a HIPAA violation. Number 3. That is just a cinflict of interest. I'm sure somewhere in your employee handbook it talks about conflicts of interest

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@nalexnapier,

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You are bound to give him special treatment or one time ir another which would not be right. Number 2

There are one hell of a lot of relationships well short of a romance one that would/could result in so call special treatments.

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You are bound to talk about him to your friends, and if he is a patient that is a HIPAA violation.

You are bound to talk about his or her medical conditions?????!!!!!?????

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That is just a cinflict of interest.

Oh? So if you just like someone that would not be a conflict of interest also by your logic?

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@roger,

roger wrote:

That's kind of a non-answer right there.

Too bad!!

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

I know in some facilities it is considered a firing offence.

In virtually all ( if not all ) Harvard-affiliated hospitals, you'd be fired on the spot. Needless to say, many a patient would sue the person involved, whether or not it had an affect on the care being given by the "professsional".

If you've worked in a hospital, you know how hungry many patients are for a nice juicy lawsuit.

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@Miller,

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many a patient would sue the person involved, whether or not it had an affect on the care being given by the "professsional".

I would love to be on a jury that hear a case of a adult patient suing a nurse and the hospital for having a sexual relationship with him or her.

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My general view is that a sexual relationship is unethical, at least in possibility for unfair behaviors re the patient or re other patients and is at least not well regarded in medical practice, even if it isn't a firing offense in some facilities (I have no idea of the percentages on that), or doesn't develop into lawsuit cause. It's a power inequality that is inappropriate.

I have a little room for understanding, if in some situation, romance happens and the physician removes him or herself from the case.

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@ossobuco,

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I have a little room for understanding, if in some situation, romance happens and the physician removes him or herself from the case.

One need to feel sorry for young unmarried doctors serving the medical needs of isolated communities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In fact there had been some discussion in the medical journals of such situations.

In any case, adults both the patients and the medical personals have a right to form relationships and just because you are a patient or a medical provider does not and should not take away that right.

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@BillRM,

I understand that that is your opinion.
You, though, don't seem to understand ethics of medical care.

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@Miller,

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roger wrote:

That's kind of a non-answer right there.

Too bad!!

Not only a non-answer, but a crony non-answer. Troll.

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@roger,

Somehow, I get the idea that KAK, New Haven, Miller, et al forgot which account he/she/it was posting under.

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@roger,

Depends on whether it is a former patient or not. I would not encourage a relationship with an actual patient, but I would not mind dating a patient who I have seen before. I do not think that it would be right to date someone that you are just treating then though.

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