There are increase incidence of news report in developing countries against doctors and nurses by relatives and care givers. A recent even that occurred on the 31st Dec 2022, was a doctor beaten on the spot to death despite, his faithfulness in upholding his hippocratic oath , and with the serious shortage of doctors in these countries as politician continue to loot and destroy the economy : any relationship between economy growth rate of a nation to incedence of work place assaults against health workers? any publications ?
This a very important question. The same incidents are observed in Lebanon from time to time. Many factors could trigger the action; needless to say, this is not acceptable in any way, I have no knowledge of a formal research of such incidents.
To me, its like biological warfare. In order to conquer/weaken a nation by keeping them sick by erradicating the medical care including doctors and nurses etc. A fertile area of research.
A sensitive but necessary research from the point of a social angle.
Normally such violent cases emerge prior to the negligence of hospital management and death of patients.
Previous studies from secondary print data show that few illegal practices are also being conducted at select local medical clinics by doctors in India which result in deaths or illegal market of human organ parts.
Coming to tahe discussion topic- Publications related to it can be collected from different NewsPAPER CUTTINGS and other print sources. A case study can be done. Since such data can be confidential, and hospitals may refrain from providing any such incident data, fieldwork can be done to obtain data with Focus group of victims.
The research may be a turning point for many countries in field of hospital management.
I was very lucky that I did not experience this in my lifetime of nursing . . . apart from one incident!
An elderly lady had become very dehydrated and was having intravenous fluids. But the high blood urea had also made her very confused. I was giving her one to one care to stop her pulling the canula out and she repetitively scratched my lower arms and hands, drawing blood.
I went off duty before she recovered, but when I went on, on the next day, she was no longer confused and would not believe that she had caused all the trauma to me! I really was quite sore!