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19 T. Marshall L. Rev. 269 (1993-1994)
A Proposal for Texas Re: Non-Psychiatric Physicians who Engage in Sexual Conduct with Their Patients

handle is hein.journals/thurlr19 and id is 279 raw text is: A PROPOSAL FOR TEXAS RE: NON-
PSYCHIATRIC PHYSICIANS WHO ENGAGE IN
SEXUAL CONDUCT WITH THEIR PATIENTS
BY
VICTORIA J. SWENSON, M.A., J.D., LL.M.*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.  INTRODUCTION  .......................................   269
II. BASIS FOR THE PROHIBITION ..........................     271
A. Defining the Terminology .......................      273
B. Prevalence of Physicians Who Engage in Sexual
Acts With Their Patients ........................   276
C. Characteristics of Physicians Who Engage in Sexual
Relationships with Their Patients ................  279
D. Characteristics of Victim-Patients ...............    284
E. Effects of Sexual Contact on the Patient ........     285
F. Informed Consent Issues ........................      287
III. CASE LAW-THEORIES OF RECOVERY .................          288
IV. STATE    STATUTES GOVERNING        SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS .................       294
A.   Criminal Sanctions  .............................   294
B.  Reporting  Duties ................................   296
C. Civil Statutes: Grounds for Disciplinary Action by
the  Board  ......................................  297
D.   Texas Senate Bill 210-Dual Liability ...........    300
V .  DISCUSSION  ..........................................  303
VI.  RECOMMENDATIONS     ..................................   306
1. INTRODUCTION
In America's first novel, The Scarlet Letter', Hester Prynne is
forced by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter A for having
* B.S., M.A., Central Michigan University; J.D., St. Mary's University; LL.M.,
University of Houston Law Center. Ms. Swenson practices law in Pasadena, Texas, and is the
first female Texas attorney to earn her LL.M. degree from the University of Houston's Health
Law & Policy Institute.
1. Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852) and set in the Puritan Massachusetts' Bay
Colonies of 1650.

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