Medscape January 7, 2021
Ken Terry

Nearly one quarter of physicians who responded to an online survey reported that they had been harassed on social media, according to a study published online January 4 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Women were more likely than men to be attacked online, and were twice as likely to experience online sexual harassment, the researchers report.

The coauthors of the study include Vineet Arora, MD, a professor of medicine and associate chief medical officer at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; Tricia Pendergrast, a second-year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Shikha Jain, MD, of the University of Illinois Chicago; N. Seth Trueger, MD, of the Feinberg School of Medicine and digital media editor of JAMA...

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