'These Things Sometimes Happen': Speaking Up About Harassment

Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 Jun;37(6):1005-1008. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1430.

¹ Charlotte Grinberg ( cgrinber@mah.harvard.edu ) is an author and a resident physician at Mount Auburn Hospital, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine and Health Affairs Blog. She is the author of the ethnographic book Nos enfants sont notre richesse: maternité et identité nationale en Guyane française (Connaissances et Savoirs, 2015). Patients' and clients' names in this essay have been changed to protect their privacy.

Abstract

A resident physician explores the pressing issue of harassment in medicine, which can come from the patients providers serve.

Keywords: Personal Experience (-Narrative Matters-).