There is also a request for
healthcare providers, if they are able to attend, to
consider wearing visible signs of their profession such as white coats, scrubs, stethoscopes to help put pressure on the courts and Ontario government that this appeal is under the scrutiny and being opposed
by front line
healthcare providers.
It is demonstrated that when violence is expressed
by a patient toward a
healthcare provider, it is usually a maladaptive response, one in which characteristics of that setting and behavior of those who work within it must be carefully
considered when determining what factors precipitated the patient's violent act.