Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons.

-Hippocratic Oath

Throughout history, the medical profession has forbidden sexual contact between medical practitioners and their patients.

The Hippocratic Oath has prohibited sexual contact between doctors and their patients since 460 B.C.

Today, the medical profession continues explicitly to condemn sexual relations in physician-patient relationships.

NYS Penal Law

SECTION 130.05

Sex offenses; lack of consent

Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE H, ARTICLE 130

§ 130.05 Sex offenses; lack of consent.

1. Whether or not specifically stated, it is an element of every offense defined in this article that the sexual act was committed without consent of the victim.

3. A person is deemed incapable of consent when he or she is:

(h) a client or patient and the actor is a health care provider or mental health care provider charged with rape in the third degree as defined in section 130.25, a crime formerly defined in section 130.40, aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree as defined in section 130.65-a, or sexual abuse in the third degree as defined in section 130.55, and the act of sexual conduct occurs during a treatment session, consultation, interview, or examination;