‘What happened was wrong’
Why this doctor spoke up about her #MeToo experience
As a medical student, Dr. Kimberley Kelly of Edmonton faced her toughest challenge when her medical supervisor made sexual advances.
She says it started with “sexualized looks on rounds. There was inappropriate sexual touching, there was hand holding in public.”
When her 40-year-old preceptor, who was a “pillar of the community,” asked her to work in his private office, she says she should have been thrilled because it “was considered an honor at the time.”
She only had seconds to weigh the offer. She recalls thinking, “With the behavior, I had witnessed and the comments that had been made to me, do I risk my safety knowing there is a chance I could be assaulted in an examining room.”
It was a difficult choice.
