Though they face a more violent workplace everyday, hospital workers aren’t quick to file charges for a variety of reasons, said Dr. Bruce Cohen, a psychiatrist with the University of Virginia Health System and director of the U.Va. Forensic Psychiatry Residency Training Program, who has studied the subject. Cohen pointed out that hospital workers sometimes feel compelled not to take the issue to the criminal justice system because medical ethics say they’re supposed to do no harm to the patient. But that doesn’t mean a hospital worker gives up the right to press charges simply because he or s...