Sexual harassment in the physician-patient interaction:
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2009
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Clinics (Sao Paulo)
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OBJECTIVE: This research intends to discuss sexual harassment within the doctor-patient relationship based on four parameters: doctor's characteristics, accuser's characteristics, accusation characteristics, and the evaluation by the Medicine Council of São Paulo. METHOD: It is a descriptive, quantitative approach using a retrospective documental analysis. Studied subjects were doctors who were allegedly engaged in sexual harassment. This analysis considered all accusations made from January 2000 to December 2005 (n=150).
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Abuse-sexual, Brazil, International Resources, Portuguese language, Sex crimes, Sexual behavior, Suggestibility