It's Time to Build up Security Measures in Chinese Hospitals

In the first half of 2016, over 60 vicious cases of medical violence happened in China. These kinds of events have been intensively occurred in recent five years. For an objective understanding of the violent events against doctors in China, we collected the reports from the Internet, newspapers, television and other media since 2011. Over the past five years, a total of 650 such cases have drawn comprehensive attention of media and medical communities. Based on our investigation, we found that there is no significant difference in regional distribution. Almost all of provinces in China have been involved with these violent incidents.