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Duncan Murray

Serious assaults on health workers double in a decade

About two health care workers are hospitalised each day as a result of injuries on the job. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

When nurse Teaghanne Sarina was kicked in the chest by a patient one night on a hospital ward, she finished her shift instead of going home.

After getting an X-ray confirming she had three broken ribs, the mother-of-three went back to work the next night as well.

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