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I think the part about not pressing charges gives this away as being fictional. As someone mentioned in the comments, an assault is a mandated report, and the

• zwkrt 5y ago
  This is naive. I have been in the doctors position of being assaulted by a patient. No one is going to force you to call the police and to talk to them and to tell them what happened and to press charges. In my case I declined because the person was having a crisis and losing everything and I didn’t feel like also making them the target of government intervention. I don’t know what I would have done in their situation but if it caused them to quit their job I wouldn’t put it past them not to uphold the duties of said job.
• lemmsjid 5y ago
  I’ve looked at a variety of articles on the subject. The belief that incidents are underreported is commonplace. Here is an example: https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/11/09/would-legislation-curb-violence-against-health-care-workers-lawmakers-are-skeptical https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/11/09/would-legislation-curb-v... I worked in a similar environment and most violent incidents were not reported unless it was people doing violence on one another rather than staff.