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Here’s a telling statistic that hits home: Two to three nurses at Massachusetts General Hospital are assaulted on any given day. Nurses at the Boston hospital contend with shoves, kicks, and verbal harassment daily, according to an October 2021 report from WBUR.
That hospital in the Bay State is not alone. Just two months earlier, a nurse at Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts was hit twice in the back of the head with a fire extinguisher. The assailant went after another nurse before a security guard tackled him. The nurse suffered a brain bleed.
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