🇺🇸 USA Aug 16, 2026 · Olivia Gieger

For emergency department staff, violence at work is a dangerous and demoralizing reality

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For emergency department staff, violence at work is a dangerous and demoralizing reality
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Sam Demers, a nurse in the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger



On the afternoon of Aug. 29, 2025, 24-year-old Destiny Hubbell was in a Morrisville emergency room for a mental health emergency examination, when she grew angry and agitated. She started spitting at healthcare workers, on their faces and in their eyes, court documents show. 



“Now you’re infected!” she repeated as she

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