New task force collaborating on ways to protect health care workers from being assaulted
of a Tulsa surgeon by a patient angry with the outcome of his back surgery, the numbers also document a growing trend.
Dr. Asia Takeuchi, an emergency medicine specialist at Sharp Memorial Hospital, attended the meeting and shared that her facility has been calling “code green” more often than used to be the case. That’s the phrase that goes out over the facility’s announcement system when a medical provider urgently needs assistance from security personnel.
“While they were securing his belongings they discovered a six-inch Bowie knife and a silver-plated revolver,” Van Gorder said. “We ended up confiscating that as we always do when we find weapons ... when the guy was discharged and he found out his gun and knife wasn’t there anymore, he threatened our security officers.
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan is part of the task force and said this week that hearing the stories of health care workers who have been harmed by patients during treatment made it clear that more should be done. The DA said that she has allocated a special prosecutor and an investigator to work on hospital violence reports. Hospitals, though, are different from almost any other kind of venue, especially because they treat people whose medical conditions may cause them to behave violently.
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