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Hey Z-Pack, it's your boy Z-Dog MD.

Okay, I am getting so, so, so tired.

So tired of reading story after story after story after story of healthcare workers being

attacked, being abused verbally and physically and emotionally by our system and the patients

that we are taking oaths to protect.

And we've talked before about the culture that's led to this and the fact that we're

treating hospitals as hotels and the fact that we're not treating mental illness and the

fact that we have an opioid epidemic and the fact that increasingly we are managed

as commodities instead of human beings and it is pushing our resilience to the limit

and we're breaking.

And we hear about the nurse who died or who's in critical care after being shot in South

Carolina.

We hear about EMS workers attacked in the Pacific Northwest and now the story out of Baton Rouge

general hospital where a nurse was attacked by a patient on a behavioral health unit.

And the way we're piecing this together is from press reports and from private messages

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