Patientdata

The dataset comprised 906 naturalistic accounts drawn from publicly available discussion threads posted by healthcare professionals on Reddit between 2015 and 2025. Posts were selected based on their relevance to patient-initiated mistreatment, including verbal aggression, threats, accusations, and boundary violations. The dataset spans a range of clinical roles (e.g., physicians, nurses, residents) and care settings, capturing diverse experiences of frontline healthcare work.

Each account consisted of user-generated narrative reflections describing specific encounters, workplace conditions, and coping responses. As naturally occurring, unsolicited discussions, these data provide access to candid sensemaking processes that are less susceptible to retrospective bias or researcher prompting. The dataset therefore enables examination of mistreatment as it is experienced, interpreted, and managed in situ across repeated interactions and contexts.