RMV->) Re: "Sexual Misconduct in Today's ORs" (February, page 24). As a physician and surgeon for more than 20 years, I do not deny that sexually inappropriate behavior can be found throughout the operating room environment. But I take exception to the message that this is a problem created almost exclusively by male surgeons. Though likely not as pervasive, but certainly just as deplorable, female nurses are equally culpable for such unethical conduct. I do not consider myself to necessarily be sexually appealing to the opposite sex (except to my wife, of course), yet over the years in the confines of the operating theatre, I have been told hundreds of tawdry jokes, been flashed and groped and been asked personal questions about my body parts and propositioned.