Abstract
"Workplace violence is consequential" is the understated observation of Strawbridge et al. in their paper "Reluctant victims: healthcare workers and workplace violence",1 in this issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal. There is a lot known about workplace violence in healthcare and the authors emphasise much of this, including that it is common and under-reported, and that we are not meeting our duty of care towards staff as well as we should. Significantly, they present two engaging and shocking, personal "lived experiences" of violence and describe the consequences for them, which include much more than the physical and persist well beyond the moment of the violent act.