White Coats, Dark Secrets: Sexual Harassment In Hospitals
They became doctors to heal patients, but ended up falling victim to sexual harassment in the hospital. From crude jokes cracked by all-powerful surgeons in the operating room, to sexual extortion and assaults endured during their training and careers - female medical students, doctors, and surgeons blow the whistle on the abuses they suffer, in a field where silence mostly prevails over denunciation. Non-consensual groping, sexual blackmail, repeated humiliations: some, like Emmanuelle, were driven to the brink of suicide, while others had to turn away from medicine. Despite prevention campaigns, the perpetrators, often influential surgeons, largely get off scot-free. How to change the paradigm so that shame finally changes sides?
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