SEVERAL times a day, every day, a healthcare worker at a public hospital here is scolded, abused with vulgarities, or even physically threatened by a patient, his family or friends.
Although hospitals do not track every incident, only the more uncontrolled and violent ones, they told The Straits Times they are seeing more cases of abuse.
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