Specialist society president quits after conference presentation branded racist
The Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand says it former head failed to inform the board about fallout from a speech given by one of his colleagues
The president of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand has quit after a speaker during one of the society’s debates made a joke about digital rectal examinations of Maori patients.
The presentation took place last November at the society’s New Zealand conference and was focussed on the topic of rectal exams and whether they were a barrier to the diagnosis of prostate cancer in Maori men.
