Professional Boundaries in the Physician-Patient Relationship

摘要: THE SUBJECT of professional boundaries (and boundary violations) has received a great deal recent attention in the psychiatric literature. 1-5 The emphasis on defining guidelines for conduct expanded beyond confines ethics committees and worked its way into licensing boards charged with disciplining physicians whose behavior jeopardizes well-being patients. Massachusetts Board Registration Medicine, 6 example, recently issued detailed such matters as self-disclosure, dual relationships, sexual relationships patients, other to help define public profession parameters practice psychotherapy by physicians. While specialists psychiatry have been debating pros cons issuing guidelines, nonpsychiatric yet involve themselves so extensively similar discussions. In this article, we will provide conceptual framework discussion