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A patient arrived via ambulance while experiencing a mental health emergency.
She tried to attack multiple people on our ED staff with a machete that she had in her bag.
- An emergency physician from Mississippi
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A patient was verbally abusive and threatening.
I have been spit on in the face while trying to talk to a patient within recent weeks.
A physician colleague had a chair thrown at him, struck him in the head.