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Emergency room doctors, nurses facing increasing violence despite felony penalty in Colorado

Hospitals nationwide see increasing attacks by patients

DENVER, CO - MARCH 7:  Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Colorado has a law making it a felony to hit staff in the emergency room, but the state still hasn't been spared from the nationwide pattern of increasing violence against health care workers.
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