Becker's Healthcare December 26, 2024
Physicians faced numerous challenges in 2024, from increased legal pitfalls in some areas of care to deteriorating physician autonomy.
But some physicians have expressed concerns about an emerging trend: the rise in violent encounters in healthcare settings.
“In 2024, one of the biggest obstacles was and is the unchecked violence being increasingly seen in our hospitals, clinics, emergency departments and other workplaces nationwide. Healthcare is now noted as America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence,” Harry Severance, MD, adjunct assistant professor at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University School of Medicine, told Becker’s.
“This increasing violence toward doctors — and other healthcare workers — is one signal of deep critical disruptions within and consumer dissatisfaction with our current...
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