It was like watching the news footage of shoppers trampling each other to get through the doors of a Filene’s Basement sale or witnessing people standing outside all night for the new iPhone even though it isn’t a sale and it will be made in mass production for months or years to come. I am talking about seeing people line up in the dark of pre-dawn to get their fingers …
There are few professional careers centered around protecting and caring for others that garner so much verbal and physical abuse than a career in emergency medicine. Mental health workers, police, fire, and EMS personnel are the other fields that come to mind when I think of a service that “helps” people yet gets abuse dished upon them on nearly a daily basis.
A 2006 survey of emergency nurses showed that 25% …
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