Prevalence of Personal Attacks and Sexual Harassment of Physicians on Social Media

JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Apr 1;181(4):550-552. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7235.

¹ Medical Student, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
² Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois Chicago.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
⁴ Digital Media Editor, JAMA Network Open.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
⁶ Women's Health Research Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This survey study examines the self-reports of personal attacks and sexual harassment of physicians through social media outlets.