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A disciplinary panel fined and reprimanded a former Catawba Hospital psychiatrist for having a sexual relationship with a patient he had treated about 10 years earlier, before joining the hospital staff. Doctors are prohibited from having sexual or romantic involvement with patients. Relationships with former patients are off limits if they are based on the initial doctor-patient relationship or if they arise out of the doctor's exploitation of the prior professional relationship. In February, the Virginia Department of Health Professions notified Hurt of the charge, which concerned a patient he treated near the beginning of his career in psychological medicine, which spanned 35 years. At a hearing Wednesday called by the Virginia Board of Medicine, Hurt said he knew the woman before he became her doctor. Hurt said he treated her from 1973 until the early 1980s, while he was in private practice. But board members cited evidence that another mental health professional who was treating the woman during her relationship with Hurt questioned Hurt's actions in seeing the woman socially...
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