One video features a patient named Zoya Lockdownikoff - who is a spy - consulting with her doctor about abnormal menstrual bleeding. Gordon, in a blonde wig with round sunglasses, plays Lockdownikoff; and Gordon's husband, Dr Adalbert Ernst, plays her doctor.
Speaking from her yellow-walled lounge in Cape Town's Bergvliet, Gordon says:"I became a doctor because I love working with patients. And then I realised, oh cool, I love teaching too. And now I can do these two things together." Published online in April, Gordon delivered a talk for TEDxUCT called"Tackling IPV, one awkward dad conversation at a time", in which she notes IPV is"a global pandemic that has been ongoing since time began". The title refers to Gordon's father who raised her.
The new legislation broadens the definition of domestic violence to include emotional, verbal or psychological abuse, which is described as"a pattern of degrading, manipulating, threatening, offensive, intimidating or humiliating conduct towards a complainant that causes mental or psychological harm...including insults, ridicule or name calling; threats to cause emotional pain; the exhibition of obsessive possessiveness or jealousy...
"Big red flags come out in body language. Usually when someone goes to a doctor, they tell you everything about all their symptoms, because they want you to make them better. So, if you've got a patient who is closed off, they're not making eye contact, they're avoiding answering your questions, they're just very reticent and you can't get anything out of them...then you've got to think.