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  • Title: Intimacy in the patient-physician relationship. Committee on Ethics of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
    Author: Yeo M, Longhurst M.
    Journal: Can Fam Physician; 1996 Aug; 42():1505-8. PubMed ID: 8792019.
    Abstract:
    Family physicians have privileged access to the intimate lives of their patients. Such access is essential for good patient-physician relationships. However, intimate access renders patients vulnerable to harm and places a tremendous burden of trust upon physicians. Physicians earn this trust by exercising care in drawing and preserving the boundary between appropriate and inappropriate intimacy.
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