Keeping your distance
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Keeping your distance
Wednesday 9 September 2020, 09:00 AM
Ignore the boundary and doctor-patient relationships can be tricky to navigate
A GP who has had an affair with a patient’s husband is deemed to have breached the patient’s rights. Reporter Zahra Shahtahmasebi looks at the issues arising in navigating the doctor–patient boundary
It was 1985 and a young Jo Scott- Jones sat with his fellow medical students outside a surgical clinic, watching a doctor examine patients’ breasts fo, Jo Scott-Jones, Ōpōtiki GP Jo Scott-Jones says mentors can provide guidance when health professionals find themselves in tricky situations
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