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01-11-2021 | Concise Research Report
Gender Differences in the Prevalence and Experience of Sexual Harassment of Internal Medicine Providers by Patients
Authors:
Jeffrey L. Jackson, MD MPH, Amy Farkas, MD MSc, Kathlyn Fletcher, MD MSc, Cynthia Kay, MD MSc, Julie L. Machen, MD, Sarah Nickoloff, MD, Cecilia Scholcoff, MD MPH
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 11/2021
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Excerpt
Sexual harassment of health care providers by colleagues and supervisors has received considerable attention. However, few studies provide information on provider harassment by patients and most focus on women providers.
1‐6 Up to 76% of women providers have been sexually harassed by a patient or patient’s family member. We investigated the prevalence of sexual harassment by patients among both men and women providers and the degree the various behaviors were bothersome. …