Violence Against Health Care Workers: Legislative Responses
COVID-19 and other diseases aren’t the only threat to health care workers. Violence in the workplace is a common occurrence and on the rise.
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EMS providers serve the public and have a duty to act. In these four scenarios, there was a failure of this duty.
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By Valerie Gutmann Koch, Govind Persad, and Wendy Netter Epstein On March 17, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Dr. Jeremy Faust, titled Make This Simple Change to Free Up Hospital Beds Now. In it, he argues that cities and states should “temporarily relax the legal standard of medical malpractice,” in order to encourage…
