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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. The Warner Bros.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. When you think about anti-asian hate, how should I think about defining the hate component? Alex 15:37 Yeah.