Emergency in the ER: Growing Violence Against Hospital Workers
May 11, 2022 As the Russian ambassador and a U.S general lunge into a physical altercation with one another in a secure area of the Pentagon, the president scolds them both with the admonition: “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!” The iconic line from Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy, Dr. Strangelove, does not fail to deliver its intended effect, i.e., to soak the movie-goer in dripping irony. How ironic it is to receive continual reports over the…