How Can We Address Increasing Violence Against Healthcare Personnel?

Dr. Patricia Farrell
BeingWell
Published in
4 min readMay 21

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Violence against healthcare professionals is increasing, and we must address it in terms that will deter further injury and/or death.

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Violence is no stranger to healthcare settings, which I know from personal experience. A female patient attacked a colleague and tore off his shirt, broke his glasses, and threw him down a metal staircase when I…

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Dr. Patricia Farrell
BeingWell

Dr. Farrell is a psychologist, consultant, author, interested in non-fiction and flash fiction writing, and health.