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Shame in Medicine: 5. Indoctrination

The Nocturnists

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I've Been in Surgery for 14 Years, and I'm a Senior Resident

"I'm very short, very slight. There was only one other woman in the entire surgery residency," she says. "There were repeated episodes of where I felt he shamed me." She recalls a senior resident who became irate when she took NG2 out of patient's drains. He started screaming at her: Was it green? Was it bile or are you sure? And all I could do was say, 'Yes, yes'

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