Physician gag rules in gun legislation prevent physicians from discussing health issues related to gun ownership with patients, especially parents of children.

Role-playing exercises, which help participants understand the experience of being harassed, can be helpful in addressing mistreatment in medical education.

Medical school faculty have a nonnegotiable duty to report students whose professional behavior falls seriously short of the mark. If they refrain from fulfilling this duty for fear of retaliation, the antiharassment pendulum has truly swung too far.

Pimping and the socratic method are often perceived as interchangeable, but they are not.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA formed the Gender and Power Abuse Committee in 1995 to address mistreatment of medical students, residents, and junior faculty.

Feminist pedagogical strategies can help combat hierarchy and marginalization in health professions education.

The Association of American Medical Colleges has added and refined questions about mistreatment in medical education to its Graduation Questionnaire, increasing the amount and specificity of information about what kinds of incidents occur and how students feel about them.

The symbol of the Hanged Man in the traditional tarot deck is relevant to the medical student's transformation into a doctor.

Despite increased awareness of the problem, attempts at ameliorating medical student abuse have been largely unsuccessful.

By not reporting abusive faculty behavior, a student places his or her grade over the larger good of promoting human dignity.