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Emergency Department Violence Stories

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Car vandalized, nurse choked

I’ve seen a nurse choked. Another nurse’s car tires were stolen, and the car was placed on blocks in the employee parking lot.

A large patient has threatened to come back after treatment and shoot all of us. It is not unusual to find guns or other weapons on patients, including large switchblades and machetes.

- An emergency physician from Michigan 

BIt off large mouthful of flesh

An intoxicated patient shoved me and bit a large mouthful of flesh off of a nurse’s arm.

Death threats against my family

Death threats against my family

Headbutt knocked them out cold

A nurse was headbutted by a patient.

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