Like other professionals Doctors have to interact with many patients of the same or opposite sex, with their own colleagues in hospitals, or working place, students in Medical colleges and other Professionals in day to day different meetings and conferences. Often doctors face sexual harassment in mild or moderate form or accused of this. Here are few excerpts from the guidelines on Sexual boundaries from the Indian Psychiatry Society Task Force and The Bangalore Declaration Group, which have been put on the Medical Council of India website. “It is the ethical duty of all doctors to ensure effective care for their patients.
This would mean that their own conduct should in no way harm their patient. Sexual relationships between doctors and patients invariably harm both the patient and the doctor. Trust, which is central to an effective doctor patient relationship, is inevitably…
