Aggressive behavior of patients is noticeably increasing in clinics and medical practices. High time pressure, overcrowded waiting rooms, and often unrealistic expectations among patients can cause ...

Recently, a general practitioner (GP) in Spenge, Germany, was severely assaulted by a patient in the waiting room, highlighting a disturbing rise in violence against healthcare professionals. The ...

London Health Sciences Centre patients will be screened for past violent or aggressive behaviour — in or out of hospital — and will be flagged to alert nurses, doctors and staff about the risk they ...

The 14-year-old patient’s hair-raising threat to an emergency room nurse at a Naples hospital sent staff running to the nurse’s aid. “I’m going to slay you and I won’t even feel bad about it,” the ...