violence in healthcare

In this episode of Security Heroes, host Lisa Falzone is joined once again by Dr. Aaron Quarles, Emergency Medicine Physician and Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Northwestern Medicine. Together they discuss the challenges of aligning community resources with the healthcare system, exploring the reasons people are violent in the ER and the need for open communication between doctors and security staff.

How to protect physicians and health care personnel from violence in the workplace. During the pandemic, physicians’ stories about threats and harassment from patients came to the forefront. However, the risk of workplace violence in health care has been on the rise since 2011. In this episode, Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEO of the Permanente Federation, discusses the toll workplace violence is having on physicians and what we can do about it. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.