Doctors dating patients..

[spring]

Should doctors date their patients? Creepy or Not? If you decide to date your doctor, should you find a new doctor?

[Nalani]

Guess it would be what sort of patient, doctor, and their age which would count. No I don't find it creepy at all and I imagine there are a lot of good dates that lead to good marriages out there that happened just that way.

Do not know if one should find a new doctor or what. There again it depends on the situation.

[cookielady]

Everyone has to meet their mate somehow. A lot of doctors end up marrying their nurse, which is an employee.

Now I became best friends with my friend Maureen who was my OB/GYN, and after we really started doing things together I changed doctors. I just couldn't have her doing my check ups anymore...too weird. Now we do discuss medical issues, but that's different.

[spring]

I hadn't thought about becoming friends with my doctor...but, I really like mine. We are about the same age and she is very laid back and makes you feel like, she's just like you. Some doctors are stuffy or act like they are above you /you are beneath them. I don't socialize w/ her, but if I saw her out at a event (like a winery or a musem) I feel comfortable with her enough to talk.

I saw on tv "The View", those women talking about this subject of dating your doctor..and I had an idea, that this might be a good conversational topic for the roundtable.
One of them said it would be creepy...well, I thought a lot of mothers wanted their daughters to grow up and marry a doctor. So why would that be creepy? Then the thought of ..if they were OBGYN. Dating would be awkward. But if you were already married, then it wouldn't be...

I don't know...I'm just rambleling.

[cookielady]

When I went to Maureen with fertility issues she was the only female GYN in town. She had moved there not long before me, was about my age, and had no kids. She was just so friendly that after my second appt (had to take back the results of my basel temp records for a month) I ask her if we could talk Donna to Maureen & she very cheerfully said "Sure!". I invited her to come to Newcomers Club with me sometime. That didn't tickle her fancy but she suggested maybe going to a movie. That's what we did & as they say, the rest is history. She still doesn't have any kids...by choice...but we just get along. She's kind of like my girls' fairy god mother. -+++

[JoGee]

I am with Nalani on this. The situation makes the difference.

It is like the Boss marrying his Secretary situation. (Ahem ) Sometimes these things just happen.

[determined]

Okay did a search and here is what I found Here is the American Medical Association policy:

"At a minimum, a physician's ethical duties include terminating the physician-patient relationship before initiating a dating, romantic, or sexual relationship with a patient."

It also seems that some States have laws against continuing the Dr/Patient relationship when they start dating.

As far as being friends with your Dr. When I was a teen we changed Dr.s and he became a family friend. The reason for the change was he bought property that the only access to was a "field road" across our field. There had been a lane coming up from the highway at one time but the men who lived there never drove so they let it grow up, My Grampy took them to town ect and so he would drive across the field to get them or check on them, after he passed Daddy just used the same path to do so. When the property was up for sale Daddy made sure that people looking at it were told that the "road" the real estate guy was taking them on was not a ROAD and that they would need to clear from the highway up to the house. Doc bought the property and then came to Daddy with a deal, free medical care for the family for use of the "road" we were looking to change Dr.s and that did it.

[determined]

Okay did a search and here is what I found Here is the American Medical Association policy:

"At a minimum, a physician's ethical duties include terminating the physician-patient relationship before initiating a dating, romantic, or sexual relationship with a patient."

It also seems that some States have laws against continuing the Dr/Patient relationship when they start dating.

As far as being friends with your Dr. When I was a teen we changed Dr.s and he became a family friend. The reason for the change was he bought property that the only access to was a "field road" across our field. There had been a lane coming up from the highway at one time but the men who lived there never drove so they let it grow up, My Grampy took them to town ect and so he would drive across the field to get them or check on them, after he passed Daddy just used the same path to do so. When the property was up for sale Daddy made sure that people looking at it were told that the "road" the real estate guy was taking them on was not a ROAD and that they would need to clear from the highway up to the house. Doc bought the property and then came to Daddy with a deal, free medical care for the family for use of the "road" we were looking to change Dr.s and that did it.