Medical interns call for investigation into racial abuse by hospital consultants.

Some 56% of medical students had reported being the victim of bullying or sexual harassment in the past year while on a clinical placement. Photo / Getty Images
A top doctor in Wellington called one of his Maori interns "student" because he couldn't pronounce his name.
Another senior consultant called all his Asian students Bob or Bill, refusing to refer to them by their correct name.
And the same consultant asked a Chinese medical student if he ate dog for dinner and warned another he'd have to quit medicine and work in his parents' takeaway shop.
The consultant has also been accused of telling one Chinese student partway through a surgical procedure that he would send her "back to Hong Kong".
In another complaint, he accused a student of stealing a surgical gown in front of theatre staff.
The claims form part of an explosive dossier of allegations of racism and bullying in hospitals, compiled by the New Zealand Medical Students' Association.
Other complaints include sexual harassment, says the association, which is calling for a full investigation into the allegations.
"Bullying and racism have no place in the 21st century, least of all by people who are supposed to be leaders of the medical profession," association president Elizabeth Berryman said.
Preliminary results from a medical student bullying survey released to the Herald on Sunday showed that 56 per cent of students had reported being the victim of bullying or sexual harassment in the past year while on a clinical placement.
According to the 285 respondents, senior hospital consultants were identified as the largest group of health professionals carrying out the bullying, followed by registrars and nurses.