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Well we where taught, a potentially aggressive sign. Could be tattoos on the face neck or hands. Any one else taught this.
 
To categorize anybody by a single characteristic is a bad move in this field (and in life).

I am far more wary of the less obvious "signs of aggression".
 
Seriously?
 
I have a tattoo on the back of my neck.


I'm a 5'6 female who paints her toenails pink, dances in the car, and has a family.. I think I hardly come off as "aggressive" and I doubt I would strike fear into your heart if you saw me....
 
I would wager that someone you encounter in a seedy motel with a shaved head, muttonchops, teardrops, and "P-A-I-N" tattooed across his forehead probably is statistically a little more likely to have a history of violence than the guy with a bowl cut who wears a sweater vest and Dockers and drives a minivan to his office job every day.

That said, it doesn't matter at all. You just can't judge a patient based on how they or the people around them look.

Everyone is potentially aggressive, no matter how they look.
 
Remi said:
I would wager that someone you encounter in a seedy motel with a shaved head, muttonchops, teardrops, and "P-A-I-N" tattooed across his forehead probably is statistically a little more likely to have a history of violence than the guy with a bowl cut who wears a sweater vest and Dockers and drives a minivan to his office job every day.

That said, it doesn't matter at all. You just can't judge a patient based on how they or the people around them look.

Everyone is potentially aggressive, no matter how they look.
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Agreed. I can identify several secondary clues in that situation to heighten my awareness.
 
I believe the AAOS Emergency Care and Transport textbook actually lists tattoos as a sign of an aggressive individual. Funny we never actually mentioned that as an indicator back in class...probably because our instructor and half the students had tattoos as well.
 
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Crabby Apple said:
I believe the AAOS Emergency Care and Transport textbook actually lists tattoos as a sign of an aggressive individual. Funny we never actually mentioned that as an indicator back in class...probably because our instructor and half the students had tattoos as well.
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Iv found the presence of open alcohol containers is a bad sign most of the time
 
Or I could be a 400+ pound male convicted offender.
 
A tattoo being viewed as aggressive is equal to profiling an Islamic Jihadist terrorist being a 'fighting aged male' between 14 and 30.
Is it 100% accurate..nope, does it have SOME foundation in reality? Sure, someone has to earn a paycheck writing the profiling documents for agencies lol
 
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