Physician bad behavior outside the workplace

Sixty-six percent of physicians have witnessed other physicians making fun of others outside the workplace, according to Medscape’s 2022 report “Physicians Behaving Badly.”

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Medscape surveyed more than 1,500 physicians about physician misbehavior and what they’ve experienced in recent years. 

Here’s the bad behavior physicians have witnessed other physicians participate in away from work: 

  • Making fun or disparaging others unbeknownst to them: 66 percent
  • Being inebriated in public: 52 percent
  • Bullying or harassing others: 45 percent
  • Using racist language: 42 percent
  • Making unwanted advances toward someone: 28 percent
  • Lying about credentials: 19 percent
  • Becoming physically aggressive with someone: 18 percent
  • Committing a crime: 9 percent

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