Is There Still Bullying in Medicine at All Levels – Undergraduate and Postgraduate? [Response to Letter]

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Simon D Taylor-Robinson, 1 Paulo Alberto De Souza Lopes, 2 Jey Zdravkov, 3 Rachel Harrison 4 1Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK; 2Department of Medicine, UAI Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3Dean Street Sexual Health Clinic, London, UK; 4Department of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UKCorrespondence: Simon D Taylor-Robinson Email [email protected] We thank Sharma and her co-authors for their very insightful comments on our perspective on bullying in Medicine. 1,2 We completely agree with them that bullying has been an issue at all stages in the medical career pathway, including at an undergraduate level. 1 We agree also that to be fully comprehensive, discussion of the medical student experience should have been included, but our article went through several journals before it was accepted and the advice consistently given was to concentrate on the specific experience of our “reportee”. 2   View the original paper by Taylor-Robinson and colleagues   A Letter to the Editor has been published for this article.