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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