A Midwesterner by birth and at heart, Elizabeth has just finished residency in New England and is now heading down to Texas to start her first job as an attending physician. She has a keen interest in public health and a stubborn attitude that if something isn’t right, fix it! When she isn’t practicing medicine, she is busy either playing the piano, hanging out with her quirky cockatiel, or catching up with family and friends with a glass of red wine and an entertaining board game.
Workplace Violence: It is NEVER Part of the Job.
Between the years of 2011 to 2013, there were approximately 25,000 recorded workplace assaults, with 70-74% of these assaults occurring within the healthcare and social service settings2. In 2014, OSHA published similar data that showed that those in the healthcare…