Sexual relationships between doctors and former patients

doi:10.1136/bmj.39058.699491.3A

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Gerald Freshwater, occupational physician

¹Shetland Medical Services, Lerwick ZE1 0EL freshwater@zetnet.co.uk

After reading Sheather's editorial about sex with former patients, I was seriously troubled.1 In 1971 I performed a minor surgical procedure on a young nurse. The following year we began a relationship that was not platonic. Now I find it to have been inappropriate. Should I own up to the General Medical Council? Shall I be struck off? What can I tell the children when …