A patient brought into the ED by police assaulted two nurses. The nurses tried to press charges but were told that unless the assault resulted in 'significant injury,' there was no help.
- An emergency physician from Iowa
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"Too many to count"
I have been spit on in the face while trying to talk to a patient within recent weeks.
Broken bones and bleeding
A physician colleague had a chair thrown at him, struck him in the head.
They wrote down our license plates
A patient was stalking and threatening to kill our staff.