Recent articles have pointed the fact that sexual harassment is not uncommon between
medical professionals [
[1]
]. Unfortunately, it seems that this harassment by faculty and staff members (that
is, university/hospital professionals) is not limited to the students themselves,
but also affects the patients. It is as if the medical profession was in itself a
risk factor for sexual harassment. No doubt the necessary (sometimes imposed) nudity
may represent the very cause of this increased risk of harassment, unless it is a
psycho-pathological drift from a significant portion of carers and/or or trainers.- Dzau V.J.
- Johnson P.A.
Ending sexual harassment in academic medicine.
NEJM. 2018; https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1809846
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References
- Ending sexual harassment in academic medicine.NEJM. 2018; https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1809846
- Hippocrates (medicine and culture).John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore2001
- Building on #MeToo to enhance the learning environment for us medical schools.JAMA. 2018; https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.3812
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Publication history
Published online: September 27, 2018
Accepted:
September 18,
2018
Received:
September 14,
2018
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