The NHS is not immune to sexual harassment. It happened to #metoo | Rachel Clarke

It’s the high-profile celebrity cases that get all the attention, but in an organisation as big as the NHS, many women will have experiences like mine

A few weeks before I sat my medical finals, a male surgeon of the old-school variety flashed up the next slide in his revision lecture on breast cancer.

Suddenly – incongruously – there on his powerpoint presentation, amid the bleak statistics about the second biggest cancer killer of women in Britain, was a young blonde woman, sitting coquettishly in front of a mammography machine, her naked breasts prominently displayed.

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