No, it wasn't quite like that. Nobody punched me in the face. Maybe I would have preferred being punched in the face, though. And yes, I was bullied. I'm not going to talk about my own experience in this post however, because I already have post-traumatic stress disorder from the experience. I'm not ready to revisit it in detail yet. I don't need to talk about myself to tell you about bullying in the medical arena. I know a lot of other people who have experienced it,

It's the beginning of July, the beginning of a new academic medicine year, that strange entity that goes from July 1 to June 30 instead of January 1 to December 31, like the calendar year, or perhaps starts in September, like other academic years. The medical calendar has been so much a part of my life that I automatically think of a year as beginning in July, and my non-medical friends are often confused by this odd chronology. I started medical school in 1983, so I've be