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A paramedic said ambulances were short of staff and basic equipment. She reported violence and aggression from patients and their relatives and said she felt unsupported by management after “horrific incidents”. She added: “I grieve for the enthusiastic, idealistic girl who joined almost 20 years ago to help [people] at the worst time of [their] life.”
Healthcare staff in Guardian survey say increasing workloads, unreasonable expectations, cuts and long hours are damaging their lives
THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY SARAH JOHNSON
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“We found that the death rate from overdoses involving benzodiazepines has increased more than four-fold since 1996—a public health problem that has gone under the radar,” said lead author Marcus Bachhuber, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine at Einstein and attending physician, internal medicine at Montefiore. “Overdoses from benzodiazepines have increased at a much faster rate than prescriptions for the drugs, indicating that people have been taking them in a riskier way over time.”
An estimated 1 in 20 U.S. adults fills a benzodiazepine prescription during the course of a year.
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