Doctors are only human. We get things wrong and behave badly at times. But there appears to be something truly rotten at the core of some parts of medicine — a toxic culture of sexism and sexual violence in our healthcare system that persists and goes unchallenged.Now, a campaign group of concerned doctors called Surviving In Scrubs have produced a report, published last week, detailing what has been termed an 'embedded and normalised culture of misogyny' experienced by female doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff.A shocking 91 per cent of women doctors have experienced sexism, with 31 per cent having been victims of unwanted physical conduct, while 60 per cent of nurses have experienced sexual harassment at work.
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