Punching, hitting, violence on the job routine, hospital workers say

It’s becoming routine for frontline hospital workers to be punched, kicked and have things thrown at them, according to research from the union that represents nurses, personal support workers and others across Ontario.
Many of those hospital workers say they are afraid to report assaults for fear of reprisal, according to a poll of workers.
Sometimes workplace violence has catastrophic results. This summer, an admitting clerk at Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital was stabbed re