A psychiatrist must never have sexual contact with a patient or former patient at any time. For all other physicians the prohibition is any current patient and for 90 days after the physician-patient relationship has official ended.
People covered by the prohibition:
(1) any patient
(2) any key third party for the patient (if the patient is a current patient)
(3) a chaperone for the patient (if the patient is a current patient)
Factors that may be used by a medical board to evaluate a report of sexual misconduct:
(1) the duration of the physician-patient relationship
(2) the nature of medical services provided
(3) the degree of emotional dependence felt by the patient towards the physician
(4) what kind of information that the patient may have confided to the physician
(5) the degree to which the physician may have exploited the patient
In general it is best for a physician never to have sexual contact with a former patient.
