In the December issue of our e-Newsletter, the OCA provided an update on the status of HPRAC consultations on the treatment of spouses by health care professionals. As part of the HPRAC consultations, OCA representatives made recommendations in face to face meetings in both Toronto and Thunder Bay, and provided a formal submission to the committee. Highlighted in the OCA submission, is that, in the case of a complaint of sexual abuse involving a spouse, the recommendations call for a rebuttable presumption that no sexual abuse occurred when the spousal relationship pre-dated the doctor-patient relationship.

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