Hospital Staff See UHC CEO Shooting as Wake-Up Call for Violence Reform
Source: Newsweek
Published Dec 20, 2024 at 3:56 PM EST
Health care workers suffer five times more violence than any other industry, yet the issue often goes unnoticed—until a high-profile tragedy, like the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, brings it into focus.
In 2023, health care and social assistance workers obtained more than 562,000 injuries and illnesses on the job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's more than any other industry, including manufacturing, construction and transportation.
Nurses and doctors are especially prone to violence. Ninety-one percent of emergency doctors say that they or a colleague were a victim of violence in the previous year, according to a January poll from the American College of Emergency Physicians. One quarter of nurses are abused in the workplace, the American Nurses Association reports.
The issue is so pervasive that in October, the American Hospital Association formed a partnership with the FBI to address targeted violence in health care settings.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/hospital-staff-see-uhc-ceo-shooting-wake-call-violence-reform-2004251
Link to Bureau of Labor REPORT - Health care and social assistance had 562,500 injuries and illnesses in 2023, fewer than in 2022
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with patients, health workers, and "insurance" (and that whole administrative nightmare). 
People talk about the "Military Industrial Complex" and the "Prison Industrial Complex" - well the same exists for "healthcare", whether you are talking about vulture capitalist buyouts of hospitals or pharmacies that cut deals with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) that may end up with higher costs for prescriptions.
The losers are the consumers and the workers - particularly when the consumer or patient is pissed off at the care and cost of it - the workers are in the "direct line of attack".
