A patient said, “I’ll meet you in the parking lot and kill you,” because I did not prescribe them the opioid pain medication that they demanded but did not need. They had a history of drug misuse.
- An emergency physician from Tennessee
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Punched by the whole family
A patient tried to swing at me, then their irate family member also tried to hit me.
Threatened so often I lost count
It happens nearly daily. A nurse was recently knocked to the ground by a patient.