Stories of doctors deviating from Hippocratic Oath have become quite common, but two recent stories of doctors behaving badly have drawn more attention.

According to the weekly Observer, in these two situations doctors didn’t follow their oath while their patients were under the influence of anesthetic drugs. The inability of low-level employees to take a stand against the wrongdoing was also highlighted.

The authors of the two accounts, which were recently published as an essay in a medical journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, hope that if such wrong practices will be exposed it might help other employees to have the courage to speak up when such wrong things happen in operating room.

The editors said, “By shining light on this dark side of the profession, we emphasize to physicians young and old that this behavior is unacceptable — we should not only refrain from personally acting in such manner but also call out our colleagues who do”.

An anonymous author revealed that one day while teaching a medical humanities class to attending medical students, he asked if anything ever happened in a way which you never wanted and you need to forgive or perhaps still can’t forgive?

One of the students stood and said that once while helping with a vaginal hysterectomy, before the surgery began, the surgeon cleaned and anesthetized the woman’s vaginal area and inner thighs while looking at him and said ‘she might be enjoying it’. The student said he was very angry over the incident.

In the incident he said he was helping to deliver a baby girl when the mother began to bleed profusely, so he called the obstetrician, Dr. Canby, to assist. The doctor inserting his hand into the uterus to help it contract, he made an inappropriate remark ‘Atta girl’, meaning a nice tight uterus, the author wrote.

The editors of Annals of Internal Medicine said in a statement that the first incident reeked of misogyny and disrespect and the second reeked of overtones of sexual assault and racism.