{"id":25553,"date":"2011-04-10T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/at_california_mental_hospitals_fear_is_part_of_the_job\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T01:00:09","slug":"at_california_mental_hospitals_fear_is_part_of_the_job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25553","title":{"rendered":"At California Mental Hospitals, Fear Is Part Of The Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent demonstration held by Napa employees demanding better safety measures, finding people who had been attacked by patients wasn&#8217;t difficult.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s Chris Cullen, a psychiatric technician who says he was punched in the face; and Zach Hatton, a recreation therapist who recounted two injuries. &#8220;I was punched in the face about a year and a half ago,&#8221; Hatton says, &#8220;and then my wrist was twisted up pretty badly and just has never healed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Frishman, a psychiatrist, was attacked while interviewing a new patient. &#8220;He came flying across the table, fists flying,&#8221; Frishman says. &#8220;He was able to hurl me against the wall where I struck my head and fractured my wrist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/04\/07\/134961467\/at-california-mental-hospitals-fear-is-part-of-the-job\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent demonstration held by Napa employees demanding better safety measures, finding people who had been attacked by patients wasn&#8217;t difficult. There&#8217;s Chris Cullen, a psychiatric technician who says he was punched in the face; and Zach Hatton, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25553\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,104,597,114,602,151,129,619,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-mental-illness","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-state-government","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}