Abstract
Most general practitioners (GPs) will experience, at some stage during their professional lives, concerns for their safety at work. For some doctors, these fears will be a regular and perhaps even an expected feature of the job. For others, events that involve aggression will be infrequent and totally unexpected. Little is accurately known about GP experiences of violence or how it affects the practitioner. Much of this chapter is therefore devoted to the results of a major survey into aggression in general practice carried out in 1989. This study not only provides us with a snapshot of the scale of the problem but, perhaps more importantly, helps to identify some of the factors that precipitate violence in the community and thereby offers the potential for avoidance of the risk.
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Hobbs, F.D.R. (1994). Aggression towards general practitioners. In: Wykes, T. (eds) Violence and Health Care Professionals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2863-4_5
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