When can you date a patient?

A physician must terminate the patient-physician relationship before initiating a dating, romantic, or sexual relationship with a patient. Likewise, sexual or romantic relationships between a physician and a former patient may be unduly influenced by the previous physician-patient relationship.

How soon can a professional relationship be established with a patient?

(Exceptions are made when emergency care is needed and when refusal to treat is based on discrimination). However, a patient-physician relationship is generally formed when a physician affirmatively acts in a patients case by examining, diagnosing, treating, or agreeing to do so [5].

What does a professional relationship with patients?

Definition. The professional-patient relationship is a bond of trust between the patient and the medical professional who is performing treatment.