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The president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has apologised for “gaslighting” female surgeons in comments he made about their clinical outcomes. Speaking on 14 September at a conference entitled Building Surgeons, Breaking Barriers,1 Tim Mitchell said that he was “deeply sorry” for causing “a great deal of upset” in comments he had made about two academic papers on the surgical outcomes of female surgeons, which were published in JAMA Surgery last month. Both papers showed that patients who were operated on by female surgeons were less likely to experience complication...

Dr Peter Hilton's comments sparked outrage among female NHS surgeons including Roshana Mehdian-Staffel (pictured), who detailed her own incidents of being harassed by colleagues.

Most women surgeons in England’s public hospitals have experienced sexual harrassment, while many say they have been assaulted and some even raped.

Women NHS surgeons revealed yesterday that they have suffered a torrent of sexual assaults by colleagues in the workplace - including one man who wiped his sweaty brow on their breasts.

Philippa Jackson, a consultant plastic surgeon from Bristol, was discussing a patient with a male colleague when he moved in to give her a hug. “He made some no