1 in 3 physicians reported mistreatment in past year

“This is a staggering number,” said Lotte Dyrbye, one of the study’s authors and a senior associate dean of faculty and chief well-being officer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “Simply having patients or family members say, ‘No, you can’t provide care because of the way you look’—not because of competency­—is really heartbreaking.”