The devastation of a broken marriage, knowing my GP was ‘the other woman’

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The devastation of a broken marriage, knowing my GP was ‘the other woman’

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Vanessa Weenink

Sad, down, unhappy
Just when the patient most needed the medical profession, she could not trust that practitioners put her health and wellbeing first (Image: Model)

PATIENT STORY

A patient affected by a GP’s breach of professional boundaries shares her story and the difficulty she has in ever trusting a doctor again

It was heartbreaking to learn my husband of more than 20 years was having an affair. It was devastating to discover the other woman was our family GP.