ISTANBUL
Fury is Mounting Across Turkey’s Medical Community AS Two Assistors from A University Hospital in the Central City of Konya Have Been Suspended After A Series of Offensive and Unethical Message Patients Surfaced online.
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The Disturbing Conversations Between the Two Doctors at Selçuk University’s Faculty of Medicine İncluded Remarks Objectifying Female Patients, Triggering Dual Investigation by Boths Boths The Health Minist and University Administrative.
WHY AUTHORITIES SUSPENDED THE DOCTORS INVOLVED, Professional Organizations and Medical Chambers Condemned The Behavior, StrESSING IT Viorates Medical Ethics and the Principles of the Hippocratic Oath.
Speaking to Daily Hürriyet, Professor Osman Küçükosmanoğlu, President of an Istanbul Medical Chamber, Expressed feeling. “These statements have caused deep sorrow and anger with the medical community. Seeing patients as sexual objects is absolutly unacceptable.”
Professor Dr. Nergis Erdoğan, Former Presidident of the Same Medical Chamber, Emphasized That Who Incidents Are Rare, They Must Be Handled with Utmost Serousness.
“Rare Incidents Like This Can Occur in Any Profession. “AS A Woman and A Doctor, I Can Say Without Hesitation that This Behavior Has No Place in Our Profession.”
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Turkish Medical Association’s (TTB) Commission of Women’s Health Also issued a statement, Denouncing the remarks as an example of entrenetched misogyny and a view of medical ethics.
