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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think anyone has flirted with me in a long time. But I'm pretty sure that's what was happening. 
Kind of fun! Does this make me a bad person?
basically just a random internet confession seeing as I dont think I can tell anyone obviously IRL. 
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That's why physicians have to be cautious with patients so no one thinks they are flirting or befriending them.[/quote]

Correct. The lines need to be clear and the ethical boundaries respected at all times.

You don't send dinner invites, or dick pics (yes, really), and you don't follow their social media, monitor their friends and keep tabs on there whereabouts.

When you leave a clinician's office, the connection should go completely dark until the next session. And no, you may not use their patient file to get their address "just to drive by"[/quote]
Seriously, how often does this happen? Doctors see hundreds of patients,  tight schedules,  little private life, so it would be rather rare. I would think the stalking would likely be from a patient who misunderstands the doctor's bedside manner. **I'm not talking about therapists though, I am sure it's frequent on the therapist's side, as well as patient side. [/quote]

If you play "blame the patient", you're the AH. Doctors don't stay in their offices. That's the whole point. It's not my fault for "misinterpreting" the intentions of a doctor who uses my medical file to get my address, cruise by my house and watch through the windows. If your doctor looks you up on social media and follows your life, that's a violation of ethics and privacy.

Maybe doctors' tight schedules and lack of a private life, plus the massive entitlement complex and arrogance many of them seem to have, make it easy for them to justify their behavior? It's toxic, regardless of their justifications, and it's particularly harmful because people will blame the victims, say we "misunderstand the doctor's bedside manner", etc. when the doctor isn't "bedside" in their office, where they should be,  at. all.

Now go back and try to read my previous comment without being a victim-blaming jerk.[/quote]

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