ERs turn more violent as government help shrinks for volatile mentally ill, addicted patients

Published August 11, 2010

ERs turn more violent as government help shrinks for volatile mentally ill, addicted patients
Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off the hand of a doctor at a suburban Cleve…
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Nurses fear even more ER assaults as programs cut
ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off the hand of a doctor at a suburban Cleveland hospital. A second assault just months later was even more upsetting: She had just finished cutting the shirt off a drunken patient and was helping him into his …
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