  Recently, there has been a significant amount of activity to try and
understand the discrepancy between Rosenbluth and polarization transfer
measurements of the proton form factors. It has been suggested that the
standard use of plane-wave Born approximation in extracting the form factors is
insufficient, and that higher-order terms must also be included. Of the
corrections missing in standard prescriptions, Coulomb distortion is the most
well understood. In this paper, we examine the effect of Coulomb distortion on
the extraction of the proton form factors.
