Family doctors often victims by patients

Violent Patients: More than one in ten GPs become victims

09/14/2014

Actually, it is the job of medical professionals to provide assistance to victims of violence. But more than every tenth family doctor is a victim of aggressive patients. This emerges from an unpublished study.

Helpers become victims themselves
An important task that physicians have to fulfill in their working lives is to help victims of violence. But more than every tenth family doctor becomes a victim in his own activities. Like the news magazine „Focus“ According to the still unpublished study „Aggression and violence against family doctors“ shows that eleven percent of primary care physicians experience at least once a year „serious“ Aggression of patients. A total of 23 percent of them have already made this experience in their professional life.

Assaults - verbal abuse - sexual harassment
The study authors from the Munich Technical University Clinic want to present their data on Saturday, September 48, at the 48th Annual Congress of the German Society for General Medicine and Family Medicine. The congress will take place from 18 to 20 September in Hamburg. When „heavy“ were counted by the study group assassinations, as well as sharp verbal abuse and sexual harassment. Of the 1,500 physicians the researchers had written, 831 filled out the questionnaire. (Ad)