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Health
Maureen Dettre

UNBELIEVABLE: Patients abusing attacking doctors staff - The Untold Story

The AMA says patients' aggressive behaviour has intensified, including in private medical practices. (Julian Smith/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

NSW doctors and medical staff working in private practice say they need greater protection from aggressive patients, amid reports they are being threatened, sworn at, slapped and punched.

An Australian Medical Association (AMA) survey of 378 medical practices in NSW found 88 per cent had been verbally abused by a patient, while 37 per cent had experienced physical aggression.

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