Finally, a light is shining on harassment and bullying in medicine. But the profession has a lot of soul-searching to do before anything changes
Last night’s Four Corners again laid bare the fraught issue of bullying and harassment in medicine, demonstrating the service that surgeon Gabrielle McMullin did to the profession by highlighting it earlier this year. Her blunt comments that trainee Caroline Tan would have been better off giving a surgeon who sexually assaulted her a blow job rather than filing a complaint were decried at the time but her detractors have been sorely disproven as witnessed by the growing calls to shine a light on what is really an open secret in medicine.
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