ABSTRACT
Healthcare Trends, Stressors, and Workplace Violence Œis book addresses medical malfeasance, de¤ned generally as the performance by an individual working in the healthcare profession of an act that is legally unjusti¤ed, harmful, or contrary to law; at its core is wrongdoing conducted especially in violation of a public trust. Œat breach of trust is what makes crime committed by healthcare professionals so abhorrent.
