Bullying common among surgeons: study

'Code of silence' may facilitate bullying in surgery, with women twice as likely to report it
Reuters Health
Bullied surgeon

Four in 10 surgeons say they’ve been bullied, with many too worried about reprisals to report it, a US study finds.

In the survey of 775 surgeons, women were nearly twice as likely as men to report having been bullied, according to the results published in JAMA Surgery.