Healthcare DIVE December 9, 2024
After attacks on healthcare workers soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, providers have scrambled to address heightened violence in their workplaces.
James Phillips was working as an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston in 2015 when a man walked into Brigham and Women’s Hospital across the street and shot and killed cardiovascular surgeon Michael Davidson.
Though Phillips was physically unharmed, the shooting served as a reminder of the several times he had been assaulted on the job.
There was one time when a patient spat blood, contaminated with hepatitis C, on him. And another when a patient threw an iPhone at his face.
“It started me on this pathway of looking back on my own early career...
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