violence against healthcare professionals by country violence against healthcare professionals by country violence against healthcare professional has occurred in the form of physical violence, verbal abuse, aggressive gestures, blackmail, and cyber-bullying. violence against doctors has been observed in the united states, australia, india, china, pakistan, nepal, sri lanka and others. australia in 2019, a survey showed that in the last three years, there has been a 48 percent increase in assaults against nurses in queensland. in new south wales the acts assaults against nurses increased by 44 percent over the same period. india