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Emergency Department Violence Stories

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Pregnant and attacked

I was assaulted by a patient. She clawed at me hard enough to draw blood. I was eight months pregnant at the time. 

- An emergency physician from South Carolina 

"I will burn this hospital to the ground"

We receive verbal abuse daily. One patient said, “I will burn this hospital to the ground.”

Undoubtedly part of burnout

I faced death threats for not giving dilaudid.

Hit by wet floor sign

A colleague was nearly killed by a patient when he was strangled

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