Objective-To obtain data on sexual contact between doctors and their patients.Design-Anonymous questionnaire with 17 items sent to all working gynaecologists (n=595) and all ear, nose, and throat specialists (n=380) in the Netherlands.Results In 1984, Henderikx and Van Son-Schoones studied 75 male general practitioners, 75 social workers, and 75 female district nurses. Of the 39% (29) of general practitioners responding 21% (six) stated that they had had erotic physical contact with a patient, 3% (1) of whom had had intercourse, compared with 36% (27) and 14% (4) for the social workers.2Mental health care workers have more commonly been study targets, and 5-10% of the male and 0-5-1% of the female care providers had had sexual contact with a client.3" The response rates, with the exception

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Objective-To obtain data on sexual contact between doctors and their patients.Design-Anonymous questionnaire with 17 items sent to all working gynaecologists (n=595) and all ear, nose, and throat specialists (n=380) in the Netherlands.Results In 1984, Henderikx and Van Son-Schoones studied 75 male general practitioners, 75 social workers, and 75 female district nurses. Of the 39% (29) of general practitioners responding 21% (six) stated that they had had erotic physical contact with a patient, 3% (1) of whom had had intercourse, compared with 36% (27) and 14% (4) for the social workers.2Mental health care workers have more commonly been study targets, and 5-10% of the male and 0-5-1% of the female care providers had had sexual contact with a client.3" The response rates, with the exception