‘Bullying in healthcare’, says NZ Medical Association chairman Dr Stephen
Child (Letters, August 10), ‘is not tolerated’. Unfortunately, the
evidence indicates otherwise. That’s because the basic principle of the health
profession – healing, not hurting – has been lost.
Dr Child talks about raising awareness of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ in the
medical profession but seems blissfully unaware of the inappropriateness of
damaging patients’ physical and emotional health by deliberately ending the
lives of their preborn infants. There can be no medical procedure more
‘disruptive’ than the forced removal of a fetus from the womb. Killing the
defenceless, voiceless preborn infant must be absolutely the ultimate in
bullying.
What’s appropriate is that the attitude of these health professionals
towards their patients, which is condoned by their peers, should also damage
their relationships with one another.
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