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October 05, 2004
Doctor-Patient [Sexual] Relationships?
Today marks the beginning of a new category on the State of the Shelanman — "Real World, Re-mystified."
This companion to "Real World, Demystified" will contain articles discussing things that just go to show, the real world makes no sense!
Today we discuss a U.K. Study about the [un]ethicalness of Doctor Patient Sexual Relationships (source: BBC News UK).
According to the article subheadline: "Four in 10 medical students feel sex between doctors and patients can be justified, a study shows."
If you are like me, that quote should have immediately gotten a "What?!?". Well, I've read the article, and... I have half an answer, but am left with the same feeling in a different way...
Apparently, the 40% who said that such a relationship could be justified really said no such thing. In fact, as you read on you will discover that actually, they said, on a survey, that they would accept a dinner invitation with a patient.
It turns out, the qualifiers and modifiers do not end there... In fact, they were presented with a scenario. They were the only doctor capable of treating the patient's condition. In fact, they were the only doctor on a remote Scottish island.
To further complicate things, apparently the study "made it clear the patient was interested in pursuing a relationship with them."
I have a few questions of my own at this point:
- How exactly did they make it clear that someone is interested in pursuing a relationship? I doubt they came right out and said it, or the BBC article would have quoted the question.
- Isn't it just a bit dishonest to say that 40% of doctors believe that doctor-patient sexual relationships can be justified based on the fact that 40% said that, in a specific weird situation, accepting a dinner invitation was possibly acceptable? I mean, after the Clinton thing, we've all heard debates about what constitutes sex. But I seriously doubt that anybody considers accepting a dinner invitation a sexual relationship!
- What kind of sick, demented institution contrived such a bizarre study as this, and why?
So... instead of de-mystifying myself, reading the article only confused me more. But at least I can rest assured that 40% of doctors don't really believe that its ok to have sex with patients as the headline suggests...
What on Earth?!!?!
— The Shelanman
Posted by andrew at October 5, 2004 07:57 PM
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