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Healthcare Violence
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Patient Stabs Staff With Used Needle At Philly Hospital: Authorities
A patient attacked Episcopal Hospital staff with a syringe on Wednesday, July 31, according to Philadelphia police. The patient arrived at the 100 E. Lehigh St. hospital "displaying violent and agitated behavior," security staff told authorities. He fought with nursing staff as they tried to give him medicine with a syringe, knocking the syringe away and "causing it to poke a security guard in the arm," PPD said. When a recovery specialist tried to intervene, the patient "stabbed him twice in the left forearm with the used needle," police continued. The patient tried to s…