Physician Sexual Misconduct - 9780880487061

At long last, a book devoted exclusively to the dilemma of physician sexual misconduct. Until recently, this was a topic not openly addressed by the medical profession. In fact, patients who brought complaints were often accused of lying or of inviting the misconduct.

Physician Sexual Misconduct results from years of work with physicians guilty of sexual misconduct and the patients they mistreated. It examines all of the dimensions associated with this terrible occurrence: legal, ethical, administrative, educational, and rehabilitative. It provides thorough, candid coverage crucial for psychiatrists and other medical professionals, social workers, lawyers, medical board administrators, and residents in ethics and forensics seminars.

To give the full picture of the medical profession's dealings with sexual misconduct, the book includes the perspectives of professional organizations, medical boards, forensic experts, the insurance industry, and patients. It addresses all of the pivotal issues associated with sexual misconduct in medicine: its legal handling, why insurance companies don't want to provide coverage for it, and how this affects victims.

This book presents the American Medical Association's and American Psychiatric Association's ethical policies against sexual misconduct and discusses how medical boards regulate this problem. Stressing that education is the key to prevention, it even offers a possible course outline for teaching medical students.

With this resource available, no health professional need feel uninformed about the problem of sexually abusive practitioners.