Nurses’ Reality: Enduring Slights, Injuries While Caring for Patients | WSJ | 10.9.07
Nurses and doctors in the emergency department are the most likely to encounter workplace violence.
A 2005 study of Michigan ER doctors showed that 75% were verbally threatened, 28% were physically assaulted and 3.5% were stalked in the previous year. (Read the abstract)
Sounds about right, I consider it a good shift if I’m not yelled and cursed at…of course “hey doc” is getting pretty close to a harassing phrase.