"When the perpetrators are patients"

"sexual harassment has been viewed as a hazard of the job – something women should expect and deal with while also providing the highest quality care to patients who are mistreating them. But “bucking up” and caring for a disrespectful or abusive patient not only puts the doctor’s own well-being at risk, it could also compromise patient care and produce a toxic health care culture...

Young female physicians or residents are alone in a room with a patient who may or may not be fully clothed. They’re discussing intimate topics in a small, confined space. And they’re professionally obligated to prioritize their patients’ needs above their own. In fact, medical training emphasizes doctors’ obligations to patients and provides detailed expectations and sanctions for physicians who abuse that relationship... 

training bystanders to navigate these encounters more appropriately is one of the most powerful things a teaching hospital can do. “If a patient harasses a resident and no one on the team acknowledges it, the victim assumes the behavior is okay,” she says. “But mistreatment of any form is not okay.” The supervisor or attending physician is charged with addressing it, even if only with the victim."

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FB: If you know a female doctor, odds are that she's been harassed by a patient "In 1993, researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that up to 75% of female doctors were sexually harassed by patients. In 2014, a meta-analysis of 59 studies published in Academic Medicine reported that nearly 60% of medical trainees had experienced at least one form of sexual harassment or discrimination during their training (patients and patients’ family members initiated more than 50% of these episodes)."