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# [Physician Bullying – Doctor on Doctor Harrassment](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/bid/295074/Physician-Bullying-Doctor-on-Doctor-Harrassment)

Posted by [Dike Drummond MD](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/author/dike-drummond-md)

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![physician bullying physician stress doctor burnout 150x150](https://www.thehappymd.com/hs-fs/file-58299060-jpg/images/physician-bullying-physician-stress-doctor-burnout-150x150.jpg)Physician Bullying is a surprisingly large issue especially for medical students and recent residency graduates according to an article I just found on BMJ Careers’ website. This is a well written article with an 8 article bibliography summarizing research on Physician Bullying. They even document the following physician bullying types.

## **Types of physician bullying**

- Spreading malicious rumours or insulting someone (particularly on the grounds of age, race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, and religion or belief)
- Copying memos that are critical of someone to others who do not need to know
- Ridiculing or demeaning someone—picking on them or setting them up to fail
- Exclusion or victimisation
- Unfair treatment
- Overbearing supervision or other misuse of power or position
- Unwelcome sexual advances—touching, standing too close, display of offensive material, asking for sexual favours, making decisions on the basis of sexual advances being accepted or rejected
- Making threats or comments about job security without foundation
- Deliberately undermining a competent worker by overloading and constant criticism
- Preventing individuals progressing by intentionally blocking promotion or training opportunities

**Here’s a [link to the full article](http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20002644#ref3)** and thank you to Lorna Powell, the article’s author for putting this issue on my radar.

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 If so, what happened and is it any one of the physician bullying types mentioned above?

 

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