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For women physicians, sexual harassment and sex discrimination are still distressingly common. Sexual harassment also happens to men physicians.
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Bowman, M.A. (2002). Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination. In: Women in Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0031-1_7
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