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Placing physically and sexually aggressive older psychiatric patients in general hospital wards is both unsafe and unethical, a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led paper argues. Subscribe to ...

Senior doctors say staff on general wards are being put in life-threatening situations because hospitals are pressuring them to admit physically and sexually aggressive older psychiatric patients.

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