Feb 3, 2022
Trigger Warning: The situations described in this episode may be triggering to some.
"On every shift, in every emergency department in Canada, a
staff member is subjected to harassment, abuse and
assault”. Our guests this week, Dr. James Brophy and Dr. Margaret Keith
have studied an extensive range of important occupational
and environmental health issues. They have just had a book
published entitled Code White: Sounding the Alarm on Violence
against Health Care Workers, which drew heavily on three
important research studies they conducted over the past five years.
The first two focused on violence against health care staff in the
hospital and long-term care settings and the third on health care
worker protection during the pandemic
Bio:
Dr. James Brophy and Dr. Margaret Keith both have PhDs in environmental health from the University of Stirling in Scotland.
As a couple and as research partners, they They have published numerous articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and contributed several book chapters to academic publications. Together they were awarded the Scientific Award from the Occupational Health Section of the American Public Health Association for the rigour displayed in their ground-breaking occupational breast cancer research.
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