article_snippet: A doctor who made a stand against sexism in medicine has received hundreds of messages of support from disgruntled women physicians across the world.
article_snippet: Dr Witt, from Melbourne, Australia, said: 'Sexual harassment is every time you call me "blondie" or "Barbie", every time you make a joke about my choice to wear a skirt not pants, every time you comment on my appearance rather than my skillset, every time you call me a "lady doctor" instead of a "doctor". '
article_snippet: Sexual harassment is two weeks ago when I lead a code blue which saved a woman on the labour ward and my male colleague arrived after the fact and said, "they shouldn’t send you up here, you’re too clucky".
article_snippet: my job’s the surgical registrar who told me if I wanted to be taken seriously
article_snippet: Dr Witt wrote the essay in response to recent comments by a respected Australian vascular surgeon called Dr Gabrielle McMullin, who suggested women should accept sexual advances by women male colleagues instead of making a complaint that could damage their male colleagues career.
article_snippet: Dr Witt, who says she has faced sexual harassment at work .
article_snippet: Dr Witt believes that sexual comments of the kind she has experienced are causing serious damage to the medical profession.
article_snippet: Dr Witt said: 'These seemingly harmless comments, coupled with the line that we 'need to take a joke', teach women in medicine that women need to just accept everyday sexual harassment. '
article_snippet: Dr Witt ended Dr Witt blog post with a call to arms for female medical workers, suggesting that female medical workers point out sexual harassment when it happened to the person in question.
article_snippet: Dr Witt said: 'I’m going to ask you,that this week you look out for subtle sexual harassment and call this week out. '
article_snippet: Whether you’re the med student, the consultant, the nurse, the dietician or the plaster tech, that when you hear a comment towards a woman that would not be made if Dr Witt was a man say "hey!
article_snippet: As Student Nurses embedded in the hospital setting there were unwanted behaviours by doctors...
highlights_snippet: Dr Ashleigh Witt, from Melbourne, wrote essay against sexism in medicine .
  