kalibex
Dagobah Resident
Imagine this scene:
A female patient under general anesthesia is being prepped for a vaginal hysterectomy. As the attending doctor washes and scrubs her labia and inner thighs, he turns to a medical student and says: “I bet she’s enjoying this.” Then he winks and laughs.
_http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/08/doctor-behavior-essay_
What is interesting in this article is that the compliance of those around such pathological types is mentioned as well. It's not just hand-wringing isn't this horrible, it's that acknowledgement that anyone can be complicit:
“Angry for the patients … angry for the younger physicians who encountered this behavior, angry at myself and others who have witnessed colleagues being disrespectful to patients but were too timid to speak out...”