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

Just over 8 percent of the patients surveyed said they had experienced anger or emotional upset within a day of symptom onset, which served as the control period.

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

“Never, at least in my 42 years of experience, has it been brought up that it was specifically around a lie, but emotional upset sometimes can be a trigger,” he said.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2019

Shock, a serious condition of acute circulatory failure, usually accompanies a severe or painful injury, a serious loss of blood, or a severe emotional upset.

From In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968) by United States. Office of Civil Defense