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 ...

Schizophrenia is occasionally associated with a higher risk of aggressive behavior, but the physical brain differences linked ...

As assaults against nurses, physicians, and frontline staff surge across every care setting, healthcare organizations are ...

SPRINGFIELD — When Dr. Mark Kenton does his daily rounds, he’s taking the pulse of Mercy Medical Center’s entire Department of Emergency Medicine. Kenton wants to know how many patients are there, how ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Aggression among nursing home residents is extremely common, and often triggered by territorial issues, according to one of only a handful of studies to look at this issue.

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...

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In May, surveyors issued Jefferson Health’s Abington (Pa.) Hospital an immediate jeopardy warning after determining a security guard used excessive force against a psychiatric patient who had not ...