Inside STAT: Hospitals starting to address sexual harassment by patients 

Tales of health care providers harassing their patients have been well-publicized, but what gets less attention is when it’s the other way around. Whether it’s a Mayo Clinic female doctor who was groped by a male patient in front of co-workers or a University of Michigan professor of medicine who was verbally assaulted by a male patient, these stories may be more common than we think. One survey of 6,000 physicians found more than a quarter had been harassed by patients. STAT's Jacquelyn Corley, who reported this story after her own experiences as a neurosurgery resident, says, "I can think of many instances when a patient acted inappropriately toward me, and I think it really surprises people to hear that patients often are doing the harassing.” Read more here.