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Metropolitan State hospital employees and supporters gather outside the gates of the hospital Wednesday July 6, 2011 to protest repeated assaults at the hands of mental patients and what they called dangerous working conditions, in Norwalk, Calif.
Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011

Open quoteIt's not if you get assaulted — it's when.Close quote

  • LAURA DARDASHTI,
  • psychiatrist at Metropolitan State Hospital near Los Angeles, on the high rate of violence at California's state psychiatric hospitals — thousands of hospital workers and patients are assaulted each year
Photo: Nick Ut / AP Photo | Source: NPR