I had clerked a patient as a new F1, and the consultant in question was one who never made you feel stupid as a junior (most do), so I would tend to choose them were there more than one available consultant for post-take review. After presenting the patient, they were reading the notes, standing next to me, and reached down and grabbed my on one buttock. There was no preamble. It was too surprising and shocking to say or do anything. It was clearly not acceptable. What could you do as a new doctor? I simply tried to stand further away from him in future in similar scenarios. This did not stop it happening again. I did not ever report it as it isn’t easy to report things like this in medicine. Thankfully I was not the only person he did it to and someone else had the bravery to report it, and one day he disappeared from the ward.
