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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
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Threw a wheelchair at me
We receive verbal abuse daily. One patient said, “I will burn this hospital to the ground.”
I faced death threats for not giving dilaudid.
A colleague was nearly killed by a patient when he was strangled