Baylor Employee Shares Story of Childhood Trauma in Hopes of Helping Others [tmc.edu]

Alicia Doktor 9/7/184:00 AM

On Sept. 5, at the Baylor College of Medicine Grand Rounds for OB/GYN physicians, residents and medical students, guest speaker Gregory Williams turned off all the lights in the auditorium and began a short video clip.

The video showed images of children with hands over their mouths, hunched over and ashamed. A brooding cover of “The Sound of Silence” by heavy metal band Disturbed played while statistics flashed on the screen: every 98 seconds, someone is sexually abused in the U.S.; 1 in 4 girls have been sexually abused; 1 in 6 boys.

Williams, a member of the senior administrative team in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor, was one of those boys.

[For more on this story by Alexandra Becker, go to http://www.tmc.edu/news/2018/0...s-of-helping-others/]

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