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Re: "Chaperone" To have or not to have? From: dahmd (dahmd@gate.net) Mon Oct 27 21:22:58 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Roger Klam, M.D.: "tgim?" Previous message: dahmd: "Re: Hormone replacement therapy and the non-risk patient" AGrunebaum@aol.com wrote: > This is REALLY spooky (October 31 is coming up). Today I saw a 6 weeks > pregnant patient for her first visit. When I entered the room with the nurse still in the room, the > patient requested that I examine her without anyone present. I asked her why, > and she said "I don't want a crowd". I explained to her that our policy is > to have a nurse present with me, but the patient insisted to be examined > alone, even when I offered to have another nurse present (maybe she didn't > like the nurse). > What would you have done? I would have respectfully offered to transfer her records to another health care provider, after explaining that this is simply one rule I am not going to break. This sounds like a dangerous situation. As someone mentioned, we live in an extraordinarily litigious society, and all it takes is a *suggestion* of sexual impropriety and a gynecologist, male or female, will be looking for another career. Ashley D. Ashley Hill,M.D. dahmd@gate.net Orlando, FL Next message: Roger Klam, M.D.: "tgim?" Previous message: dahmd: "Re: Hormone replacement therapy and the non-risk patient"

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