KevinMD March 7, 2025
I was recently asked what I thought were some of the biggest evolving obstacles to physicians and health care in 2024 and beyond.
My answer:
Health care has become America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence, with health care workers now being five times more likely to be assaulted “on the job” than in any other type of workplace in this country.
This is one of the most critical obstacles that must be immediately addressed.
But as dangerous as this explosion in health care workplace violence is, in reality, it is just one of multiple deep critical disruptors within, and one red flag warning of rampant and escalating consumer dissatisfaction toward our whole health care system.
This surging level...