Why is it unethical for a doctor and his/her patient to enter into a serious relationship if both develop feelings for each other? Don't tell me the law. I want to know the LOGIC behind the law.

The logic behind the law is the same logic that makes it illegal for adult schoolteacher to sleep with a pupil, even if she wants to.

The Doctor is an authority figure. It is too easy for him to 'mold' your opinions and desires for his own benefit. Add to that the helplessness of needing medical or psychiatric care that often causes patients to idolize their doctor, it becomes a loose/loose situation. You cannot trust your feelings for him. But it is darned hard not to trust your own  feelings, so hard that society steps in and makes a law. Once you are up and healthy you can seek out the guy to see if he is really all that.

But until then he is off limits for you just as you are off limits for him. Should you succed in seducing him he stands to get fired from his job.

Miss, please lie down here on this couch.  I think I can help you.

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A doctor should be objective and not let personal feelings cloud their judgment, in order to provide the best medical care. This becomes very difficult when a doctor and patient are in a relationship.

I think you are right and it is infringement of rights but it should be valid advice because a doctor needs to be emotionally detached from a patient to provide the best care using statistics and science. So I think it is a smart idea but I don't think that is enough for it to become a rule because it is impossible to stand in the way of love.