The RACGP has issued its first guidelines on dealing with sexual harassment by patients, trying to support GPs who are forced to work through medicolegal quandaries as they try to protect themselves.  

Sexual harassment at work is difficult for anybody, but GPs have the added pressure of working under medicolegal and confidentiality rules.  

Dr Rob Hosking is the chair of the RACGP expert committee on practice technology and management, which reviewed the guidelines. 

Here, he explains some of the delicate lines GPs are forced to tread while dealing with these situations.