title: Legal issues. After an assault.
abstract: In California, a health care worker who was attacked on the job by a patient sued her attacker. She won the lawsuit but lost her job. Hospitals are torn between obligations to people who come to them for care and employees who deliver it.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D004651:Employment / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014754:Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*