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Let's talk about sex
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Do you ever find your patients sexually attractive? Have you ever been sexually aroused while seeing a patient? Have you ever prolonged a physical examination because you were enjoying the sight of someone's body? Have you ever had an enduring sexual fantasy about one of your patients? Have you at any time considered initiating a sexual relationship with a patient? Over the past year or so, I have become particularly interested in these questions. I have also become curious about why it seems impossible for most of us to discuss them.
In ten years as a GP trainer, for example, I can remember