Summary I agree they were poorly chosen in a time of heated emotion, tweeted Sharmeen.
(Web Desk)- Oscar and Emmy Awards winner, and women rights advocate Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy faced sever backlash on her ‘harassment’ tweets following which AKHU fired the doctor.
After remaining mum for couple of days, Sharmeen has finally broken her silence while admitting that some words were ‘poorly chosen’.
She wrote, “Some of the words I used have disappointed people and I agree they were poorly chosen in a time of heated emotion.”
Chinoy further added, ““My tweet about the wrong women in the wrong family was not meant to suggest a sense of privilege or power, what I meant to say was that the women in my family are strong and stand up for themselves and always have.”
Chinoy maintained that doctor’s act of sending a friend request was ‘breach of trust and severe lack of a professional code of conduct’.
On tweeting, doctor-patient privilege, women and harassment pic.twitter.com/2HoCK36wjb
— Sharmeen Obaid (@sharmeenochinoy) October 31, 2017
“You may disagree with the manner in which I called the doctor’s behaviour, debate the boundaries of social media with medical profession and my form and tone of expression, but ultimately, what happened was a breach of trust and severe lack of a professional code of conduct that led to a woman feeling violated or harassed. And on that I will not stay silent,” she concluded.
Earlier, Sharmeen garnered eyeballs when she shared details of her sister encounter with a doctor from AKHU and tagged whole incident as harassment. She took to microblogging website Twitter and shared details.
There are zero boundaries in #pakistan! Last night my sister went to AKU emergency & the doctor who tended to her tried 2 add her on FB 1/2
— Sharmeen Obaid (@sharmeenochinoy) October 23, 2017
Unfortunately the doctor messed with the wrong women in the wrong family and I will definitely report him! Harassment has 2 stop!
— Sharmeen Obaid (@sharmeenochinoy) October 23, 2017
