After my boyfriend was brutally assaulted by EMTs, I realized that this profession may be especially high risk.  Not only could my boyfriend been seriously injured, the EMTs themselves were at risk.  An armed patient could have killed them!  

As an occupational epidemiologist seeing the Affordable Care Act on the horizon, I felt I needed to figure out how to best help these EMTs so they do not assault patients or get assaulted by patients.  They are obviously burned out - the literature is clear.  But how do we help them?  Please contribute to the library!

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