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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 458
MEDICAL PRACTICE
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F.S. 458.329
458.329 Sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine.The physician-patient relationship is founded on mutual trust. Sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine means violation of the physician-patient relationship through which the physician uses said relationship to induce or attempt to induce the patient to engage, or to engage or attempt to engage the patient, in sexual activity outside the scope of the practice or the scope of generally accepted examination or treatment of the patient. Sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine is prohibited.
History.ss. 1, 8, ch. 79-302; s. 296, ch. 81-259; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 25, 26, ch. 86-245; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

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Amendments to 458.329


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 458.329
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 458.329.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

LORTZ, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,, 700 So. 2d 383 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

. . . AHCA alleged a violation of section 458.329, Florida Statutes (1995), which provides: Sexual misconduct . . .

A. LIEBERMAN, M. D. v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF MEDICINE,, 573 So. 2d 349 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . As to patients L.I. and D.B., the hearing officer found Lieberman also had violated sections 458.329 . . .

BUCHANAN, v. A. LIEBERMAN, M. D., 526 So. 2d 969 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988)

. . . Section 458.329, Florida Statutes, provides as follows: Sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine . . .

YERO, M. D. v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS,, 481 So. 2d 61 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . Count one alleged violations of Sections 458.329 and 458.331(l)(x), Florida Statutes (1983) for sexual . . . The hearing officer concluded that the Department failed to prove any violation of Sections 458.329, . . . Yero was guilty of violating either Section 458.329 or 458.331(l)(k) by engaging in sexual activities . . . Section 458.329, prohibits "sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine” which conduct is defined to . . .

HARRINGTON HARRINGTON, v. J. PAGES,, 440 So. 2d 521 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . We specifically reject appellants’ claim that the legislature, by enacting section 458.329, Florida Statutes . . . the alleged conduct of the Defendant, although qualifying as sexual misconduct prohibited by Section 458.329 . . .