{"id":792,"date":"2021-03-26T21:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-bmj-another-epidemic-abuse-and-violence-towards-doctors-from-patients-and-the-public\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:29:53","slug":"dauk-in-the-bmj-another-epidemic-abuse-and-violence-towards-doctors-from-patients-and-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-bmj-another-epidemic-abuse-and-violence-towards-doctors-from-patients-and-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the BMJ: &#8216;Another epidemic: abuse and violence towards doctors from patients and the public&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/icons8-team-r-enAOPw8Rs-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5188\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of the grassroots campaigning organisation the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK), told The BMJ that doctors continued to receive abuse despite \u201crisking their lives since March 2020.\u201d In a recent survey, DAUK\u2019s members reported verbal and physical abuse including insults, racism, death threats, and violence. One respondent told the campaign, \u201cPhysical abuse is a regular part of being an emergency medicine doctor. I have been hit and bruised by many patients for a variety of reasons. All staff have a story to tell, and it\u2019s rare that the patients ever have to face any consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt is not enough simply to clap once a week for NHS staff,\u201d as the public were doing in the first lockdown of 2020, says Batt-Rawden, DAUK president. \u201cWe have to create a protected workplace that doesn\u2019t leave them at risk of abuse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.n739\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.n739<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of the grassroots campaigning organisation the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK), told The BMJ that doctors continued to receive abuse despite \u201crisking their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,58],"tags":[110,154,38,54,107,133,33,34,42],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-the-nhs","tag-compassionateculture","tag-bmj","tag-dauk","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-nhs-staff","tag-nhs-staff-survey","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}