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Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries
- Correspondence to Dr Jacob M Appel, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; jacobmappel{at}gmail.com
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Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries
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- Received May 7, 2021
- Accepted July 2, 2021
- First published July 14, 2021.
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June 15, 2023
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