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Monday, September 5, 2011

psychiatry ain't bulletproof either

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Bullying in psychiatry

Intuitively, the psychiatric profession might be expected to be particularly sensitive to bullying and its consequences. However psychiatric trainees are in no way exempt with rates of bullying at least as high as other medical students. In a survey of psychiatric trainees in the West Midlands, 47 per cent had experienced bullying within the last year with even higher percentages amongst ethnic minorities and females. Qualified psychiatrists are not themselves required to be psychiatrically tested.
[...]Speaking of many doctor's predilection of bullying nurses, Teresa Brown writes:
"...the most damaging bullying is not flagrant and does not fit the stereotype of a surgeon having a tantrum in the operating room. It is passive, like not answering pages or phone calls, and tends toward the subtle: condescension rather than outright abuse, and aggressive or sarcastic remarks rather than straightforward insults.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying_in_psychiatry#Bullying_in_psychiatry

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