In recent years, many hospitals and medical facilities have begun using means to control violent and unruly patients. More than 150 hospitals throughout the United States are currently using or testing tasers to try and control this growing problem according to The Washington Post.

Many hospitals have patients that come from jail or patients from mental hospitals. There are also some visitors that come to visit patients or harass staff members. The tasers are just a precaution to protect staff and other patients.

Dr. Jeffrey Ho, an emergency room doctor at the University of Minnesota Hospital, thinks that using tasers against patients who are violent is the best possible method. He believes that violence occurs in hospitals and that the hospitals need to act.

According to one study, the number of violence-related injuries on hospital property has dropped by approximately 35 percent after tasers were distributed to guards at the hospital. Still many health care providers disagree over the use of stun guns in hospitals.

Robert Philibert, a professor at the University of Iowa, does not believe that tasers should be used in care-giving facilities. While he admits that they are “better than a gun,” he also argues, “Tasers are still a threat, a symbol that breaches the trust and the understanding of the patient that you have a comprehensive, beneficent attitude towards the patient.”

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