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First Male Sexual Assault Victim - Experience and Learning

Hello everybody  Hope you're doing well. This is slightly unconventional topic. I'm talking about but as an emergency physician, I think we'd be having more cases like this in future thanks to the awareness and I'm glad we'd be there to help people there. Idea is to learn and spread awareness about dealing with these cases in a civilized way rather than panicking. Men facing sexual assault is also a thing. I happened to read this article on ACEPs website. Thought of sharing my experience as well.Will drop the link in the end. Experience is not unique . Untapped , untouched and forgotten area of my specialty. I honestly did nothing there. But I guess it was God's way of telling me , this can happen , you better be prepared mentally, academically. I don't think I had read about this after I closed my Forensic Medicine textbook in my medical school , later in my MRCEM Intermediate exam.   The Event Last year, I was on night call ,my nurs