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Characteristics of "erotic" practitioners

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1324

Using the responses of 460 physicians to a questionnaire survey regarding sexual contact with patients (1), the authors attempt to statistically differentiate two groups--erotic practitioners and nonerotic practitioners. Analysis of data suggests that the freer a physician is with nonerotic contact with patients, the more statistically likely he is to engage in erotic contact.

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