Violence towards doctors

Violence towards junior doctors in accident and emergency departments.

The experience and training of accident and emergency (A&E) junior doctors with regard to patient aggression was investigated by use of a telephone questionnaire. A total of 114 A&E departments in five different regions in the United Kingdom were telephoned. A total of 100 junior doctors answered the questionnaire. Verbal aggression had been experienced by 96 of them, 50 had received threats an...

Appeal from Chinese doctors to end violence.

How doctors should react to domestic violence.

A palpable alarm echoed throughout Hong Kong when two young children were chopped to death and another critically wounded by their father before he hanged himself on 20 January 2002. Domestic violence in the form of homicide, suicide, spouse battering, and child abuse are among the most common social and mental health problems worldwide. Such incidents are but the tip of an invisible iceberg of...

Rise in violence against doctors in Turkey, elsewhere.

Time for humanity from doctors towards patients.

I t would not be difficult to support the claim that medical achievements during the 20th century rank as high, if not higher, than those in any other field of human endeavour. Doctors have played a significant part in delivering the findings of science to patients in a variety of health care settings. Yet, the climate today in medicine and health care is not an optimistic one; indeed, it may n...