The Impacts of Patient Aggression on Doctors' Wellbeing

Families can also react quite strongly sometimes. Dealing with patient aggression or dealing with patients whose expectations haven't been met is one of those things that requires practice and skill and experience in managing. Dr Bradfield you would know this first hand having trained as a general practitioner what are the impacts of this kind of behaviour on doctors well being? Yeah look great question I guess there's the immediate sort of impact and then there's the longer term impacts.