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October, 1984

Physician, Heal ThyselfRichmond, Virginia--The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld damages of $70,000 to a former Navy wife and $30,000 to her ex-husband after she was "counseled" by a physician's assistant at a Navy clinic into having a sexual affair with him as a means of curing her of what he diagnosed as chronic depression. When the woman revealed the treatment to her then-husband, he suffered a bit of depression himself, the marriage broke up and the two decided this t...