What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place? How do you respond when a
patient suddenly hugs you at the end of a session? Do you accept a gift that a patient brings …

The author of this book is a psychiatrist, and the survivor of sexual and emotional abuse by
the psychiatrist who was her therapist. She employs two voices in the writing of her book: the …

OBJECTIVE To examine patients' attitudes to comforting touch in family practice. DESIGN A
survey was designed with statements and responses to proposed scenarios. SETTING …

Background The quality of the physician-patient relationship is associated with improved
healthcare outcomes and patients' complaints due to dissatisfaction. Factors that influence …

Objectives To compare self-reported experiences of and attitudes towards sexual
professional boundaries (SPB) in a cohort of undergraduate and graduate physiotherapists …

so clinicians' attention to transference reactions—theirs and their patients—is especially
important. Mismanaged transference reactions can undermine the therapeutic alliance in the …

Leslie L. Rourke, MD, MCLSC, CCFP James TB. Rourke, MD, MCLSC, CCFP (EM) tt has
been suggested that a physician's patients and friends should be entirely separate.'In a …

This research was undertaken in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to describe the
experiences of women who are living with psychosis, and of the nurses who provide mental …

Votre mère, qui n'est pas si âgée mais qui se sent vieillir rapidement depuis le décès de
votre père il y a deux ans, vous demande de lui prescrire un médicament pour combler une …

A male Obstetrics, Gynecology resident asks you for advice. He has become uncomfortable
because of the attention directed toward him by a patient. The situation started when she …