Talk:Aurora Emery/@comment-37484301-20190510152727/@comment-36277500-20190518201313

Fearless Diva Believe me, he is. If you don't believe me, believe the definitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying_in_medicine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_bullying#Medicine

[//abuse.wikia.org/wiki/Mobbing https://abuse.wikia.org/wiki/Mobbing]

[//abuse.wikia.org/wiki/Workplace_bullying https://abuse.wikia.org/wiki/Workplace_bullying]

Many things fit:

1. Threat to professional status - including belittling opinions, public professional humiliation, accusations regarding lack of effort, intimidating use of discipline or competence procedures

2. Threat to personal standing - including undermining personal integrity, destructive innuendo and sarcasm, making inappropriate jokes about target, persistent teasing, name calling, insults, intimidation

3. Isolation - including preventing access to opportunities, physical or social isolation, withholding necessary information, keeping the target out of the loop, ignoring or excluding

4. Overwork - including undue pressure, impossible deadlines, unnecessary disruptions.

5. Destabilisation - including failure to acknowledge good work, allocation of meaningless tasks, removal of responsibility, repeated reminders of blunders, setting target up to fail, shifting goal posts without telling the target.

Examples? By "darker side of Ethan", I mean that he's a psychopath or has some other personality disorder. Probably he was abused as a child, what is hinted during his brainscan (aggression as response to MC's question about his childhood). I'm interested in him probably because of his emotional problems, and since chapter 4, I want to ease his poor, twisted mind. I want to hug this big abused child, this wounded bird with broken wing. But this guy is undoubtedly not quite normal (the same day, earlier he called MC with worst names, and later drinked and flirted with them, gaping on their diamond outfit with dropped jaw - as if nothing wrong happened earlier that day). It's just a tip of iceberg. If you read the whole article and - I encourage you to do it - the linked sources, you would probably find more "random similarities" between Open Heart and definition of bullying in medicine.
 * being humiliated by teachers in front of patients or peers (What happened in chapter 1 after patient with haemothorax, in front of nurses and patients? What happened after Annie's reanimation, in front of Jackie and Annie?)
 * being put under pressure to carry out a procedure without supervision (Why Ethan forced MC to solve Annie's case without his supervision nor vital informations, despite knowing the answer from the start?)
 * A bully's mistakes are always concealed or blamed on underlings or circumstances beyond their control (also Annie's case!)
 * persistent destructive criticism, sarcastic comments and humiliation in front of colleagues will cause all but the most resilient of trainees to lose confidence in themselves (What happened during morning route? How Ethan treated Landry in front of Mr. Knoblauch?)
 * threatening (in chapter 1, if you remind Ethan that you have a name, he threatens you to fire you; in chapter 2, after Annie's anaphylactic shock, Ethan again throws menacing words about you leaving hospital "because you are not enough good" - in a veiled form, but he blames you for what was his own negligence!)
 * overwork (MC is often burdened with more work than others: Kyra, PITA patient); even most diligent doctors are just humans, and have limits of stamina...
 * Consultants who feel burnt out and alienated may take their disaffection out on junior colleagues (Ethan isn't a consultant but merely an attending, but the rest fits: he has some problems in both work and private life. And takes it out on interns: MC, Landry or Sienna, whom he chewed only because... she had a human heart and mourned for "sad cases"!)
 * Mental disorders in bullies (Ethan has some illusion of grandeur ("I'm second best doctor in USA"). He manipulates MC like a puppet in chapters: 2 (Annie) and 9 (rude patient), and in some diamond scenes when he plays twisted mind games to "deconstruct" MC's psyche and built it according to his will - as he thought he was a God! Not to mention than he sometimes played with patient's life "to give MC a lesson"...
 * "indifferent" Zaid also insults interns and depreciates value of their work ("even if you win, you won't deserve it", "I hope you get fired, from the bottom of my heart" etc.) Literally everytime he opens his dirty mouth, he spouts only dirt (even Ethan isn't such evil troll hating the whole world, I must admit).

Believe me, I've experienced ALL of these things listed above, and even more (I was also defamed by perpetrators). It's actually a crime, called "workplace bullying" in USA, "mobbing" in Europe and "power harassment" in Asia).

It's not that "sticks and stones may hurt you, but words do not"... It's actually vice versa - verbal abuse, humiliation and harassment may drive you to depression and even suicide.

That's why Aurora Emery is an innocent lamb, compared to these two bad boys, and her teasing MC is just a child's play compared to real crime.

Beyond its ramifications for victims, disrespect and bullying in medicine is a threat to patient safety because it inhibits collegiality and cooperation essential to teamwork, cuts off communication, undermines morale, and inhibits compliance with and implementation of new practices. Nothing more, nothing less.

Just imagine that someone does it to YOU - instead of ME or MC. Please.