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Guard dogs, panic buttons: Nurses under threat from rising violence

By US News & World Report  
   November 02, 2021

Emergency room nurse Grace Politis was catching up on paperwork during her shift when she suddenly realized her head hurt badly. Then she blacked out.

"Later on, I found out I was hit in the head twice with a fire extinguisher by a patient," said Politis, who works at Lowell General Hospital in Lowell, Mass. 

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