Doctors are there to look after you, but medical students say racism, sexism and bullying is rife.
Being told indirectly that, unless you’re a white man, no one is going to want your sperm is not something you forget.
The student was in the room when a group of nurses were discussing a female patient who had requested an Asian sperm donor.Medical students say bullying is rife in the profession. Picture: iStockAnd Sam’s not alone. Many of his peers have also endured deeply unpleasant experiences.Another fifth-year student, Tim*, said he benefited from being a white man in the medical industry and wanted to do more to help his international colleagues.
“Then I noticed it was a repetitive thing. He’d let the caucasian students in but not the international students. It’s just not good enough.” “Most of my teachers always refer to doctors being a ‘he’ and nurses being a ‘she’,” the student explained.Source:istock “I thought, ‘this could be life-threatening’ so I said to the doctor, ‘Shouldn’t we do something? She doesn’t look good.’ But in front of everyone, they would be really dismissive and start asking things like, ‘What do you think is wrong with her? What should you do?’” he said.MEDICINE’S TOXIC PECKING ORDER
“Senior doctors were overwhelmingly considered unapproachable because they were ‘self-important’, sexist, uninterested, too busy, or participants feared verbal abuse,” the report states.
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