Dangerous patients: what can you do?

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Q It seems that my patients are becoming larger, stronger, and more belligerent. Recently, a number of patients 9 to 16 years of age became uncooperative and actually combative when we performed procedures such as fingersticks for hemoglobin tests or administered vaccines.

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