The Italian Society of Emergency
Medicine (SIMEU) on Wednesday sounded an alarm about the number
of attacks doctors are subject to at Italian casualty
departments.
It said 63% of 218 emergency rooms surveyed from March 1 to
April 30, 2017, registered at least one violent incident.
That sample took in about a third of Italy's 667 emergency
rooms.
SIMEU said that the situation has "deteriorated significantly
in all regions" this year.
It said half of the violent incidents took place in the most
overcrowded ER departments.
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