emotional upset

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Dr Greg Irwin, a doctor at the QEUH, was pictured confronting a group of protestors in February 2023, saying that they "cause emotional upset to patients, but also to staff members".

From BBC • May 15, 2025

Researchers in a global study devoted to figuring out stroke triggers found that about 1 in 11 stroke patients experience anger or emotional upset in the hour before their stroke symptoms begin.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

But I believe that confronting whiteness and the myths associated with it would cause great emotional upset for many white people.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2020

As he would do when a patient has a food intolerance, Dr. Johnson would advise avoiding an emotional upset that is known to trigger vomiting.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2019

There was no evidence of emotional upset, but we waited for further testing until we had seen the father, that we might be sure of the school history.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William