Left with
severe injuries that have caused additional long - term health issues and not receiving the amount
of compensation from the other party's insurance company you feel you deserve, you may decide this is the
type of situation when filing a
personal injury lawsuit makes most sense.
PTSD symptoms and the full range
of criteria comprising a PTSD diagnosis have been observed in rescue and ambulance personnel.12 13 Healthcare workers typically are exposed to two
types of trauma in the hospital setting: direct (
personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-
personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences
of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats
of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplace.