Messages on Whatsapp, unwelcome words and gestures. She, a young specialist working at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Reggio Emilia, reported the doctor to the ASL management for these behaviors and, at the end of an investigation, the man was suspended for 15 days.
According to what was reconstructed by the Gazzetta di Reggio, the doctor sent insistent messages to the trainee and addressed words and gestures to her which became real harassment to be endured in the workplace. Until the young woman decided to forward a complaint to the management of the local health authority which initiated disciplinary action against the doctor.
The man defended himself by claiming that his way of behaving was the result of a joking attitude and that he had never crossed a certain threshold, i.e. believing that he had not behaved incorrectly.
The Reggio Emilia Local Health Authority appointed a disciplinary commission which considered the behavior particularly serious. At the end of the two-week suspension, the doctor will go to work in a hospital in another province of Emilia-Romagna, but it would be a transfer previously requested by the doctor himself and not a consequence of the affair that involved him.
(Unioneonline/D)
