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Doctors clamp down on sexual abuse of patients

This content was published on Feb 3, 2004 It is believed that as many as 14,000 patients a year in Switzerland could suffer sexual assault by doctors, nurses and therapists. The issue came under scrutiny after Werner Tschan, a Basel-based psychiatrist, published two studies on this form of abuse. “Many people who suffer some sort of sexual abuse don’t know whether a boundary…