Dr. Clive Kilgallen:

I want to amplify a point made by Ms Chambers, where she said she has had many bad experiences but she has not officially logged them. I have had the same experience in talking to my colleagues in the IMO. We did a survey and found a significant amount of verbal abuse and assault of doctors. Apart from the statistics, when I talk to some of my colleagues in the coffee room, people do not feel comfortable talking about it. When they say, “Something bad happened to me”, I will ask have they logged it in and they will say, “No, I cannot do that.” Therefore, I believe that all of these statistics we are listening to are under-reported. I am sure a trainee doctor would have exactly the same experience.