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Online news - 2 March 2010
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Half of doctors experiencing abuse and aggression

Doctors are vulnerable to aggressive, demanding, abusive or even violent patients and feel ill-equipped to manage such consultations, according to an MDU survey.

Of 172 GPs and hospital doctors who responded to the survey1, over half (99) said they had been physically or verbally assaulted in the last five years. While some of the respondents accepted this as 'part of the job', over half (100) said they had not received training in dealing with such situations and would like to feel more confident.

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