Violence against Doctors and other health professionals is an age old problem even
though doctors often have been compared with angels or agents of god. However over
last two decades the assault on doctors are increasing across the globe and has already
reached pandemic proportion [
[1]
]. A review of internet at Pubmed with key words like violence to doctors revealed
4156 references of which almost one fifth of the papers are related to various facets
of violence towards doctors and medical fraternity by patients or their relatives
or by third party inducted by patients; relatives. Violence towards doctors can take
various forms (Table 1).
Table 1Varieties of patient violence.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 03, 2018
Accepted:
August 15,
2017
Received:
August 10,
2017
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