About this episode

Tammy Scott shares her harrowing experience of surviving a near-fatal stabbing in an ER and discusses her advocacy for healthcare worker safety.

Mark Flauter sits down with registered nurse Tammy Scott to share her powerful and deeply personal story of survival and advocacy. In April 2022, Tammy was stabbed and critically injured by a patient while working in a St. Louis–area emergency department. She recounts what she remembers from that traumatic day and opens up about her long and challenging journey toward physical and emotional recovery. Tammy also discusses her experiences navigating the workers’ compensation system and shares her perspective on where hospital administration, and the healthcare system more broadly, can do more to protect frontline professionals from violence. The conversation expands to explore the alarming prevalence of assaults against healthcare workers, both in prehospital settings and inside hospitals, and the troubling normalization of these incidents within the profession. The episode concludes with a look at Tammy’s ongoing advocacy work, including her foundation, The Nightingale Front, her memoir Frontline Survivor, and her upcoming appearance in the documentary Suck It Up, Buttercup, soon to be available on streaming platforms. This episode is brought to you by Medical Shipment…

People in this episode

Host: Mark Flauter

Guest: Tammy Scott

Topics covered

• survival
• healthcare worker safety
• advocacy
• emotional recovery
• workers' compensation
• assaults against healthcare workers

Keywords

• stabbing
• emergency department
• healthcare violence
• advocacy
• workers' compensation
• recovery
• Nightingale Front

Sponsors

Medical Shipment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Nightingale Front

Books & works: Frontline Survivor, Suck It Up, Buttercup

Places: St. Louis

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