Sexual abuse in medicine? Yes, #UsToo
Why are doctors still afraid to speak out?
27th July 2018
Dr Rebecca Brand (not her real name) remembers the moment clearly: as a second-year resident working in a large public hospital in Sydney, she was suturing a patient under the supervision of a registrar when the senior doctor started to grope her bottom.
MeToo protest in Los Angeles 2017. Photo by AAP
“I just froze,” she recalls. “We were in a confined space and I didn’t feel like I could say anything in front of