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Physician, protect thyself.

B Sibbald
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Increasingly, health care workers are being threatened and physically attacked by the people they are trying to help. What can physicians do to protect themselves and their coworkers?

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B Sibbald. 1998-10-20. Physician, protect thyself.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9834728/

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