The healthcare system’s time-honoured response to bullying is to ignore the bullied and cover for the perpetrator
She was not “just” gay but transgender and wanted to live her life openly in one of the most conservative professions in the world. Smart, polished and articulate, she was an asset to any profession but in medicine she found a tough enemy, evident in her account of the sly insults and abhorrent behaviour directed towards her by people meant to be healers. The support of her few defenders would be no match for the dogma that only “regular” men and women could be real doctors.
Another day, another place. A fellow doctor rushed past me and it was impossible to miss the leak of breast milk starting to stain her shirt. She had a four-month old baby at home and was back at work to fulfil her training requirements.
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