I can't say too much because I don't want anyone from work reading this but I've just been verbally assaulted by a surgeon.
Basic story: Surgeon had poor behaviour even bragging about swearing at and insulting a nurse. I decided that I had to say something an so I spoke to them in private and rather than discussing the problem they went completely ballistic, accused me of pointing at them and decided to intimidate me by pointing their finger right in my face and threatening my job, threatening to report me to the head of surgical department etc. I'm just standing there flabbagasted.
really I should have laughed and offered to ring the head of surgery myself and interrupt his lunch break because his junior surgeon is having a hissy fit because of the nasty nurse. But instead I asked them to calm down, was ignored and it got worse. At this point I had a witness (thank goodness) who saw the screaming, finger pointing, me asking for them to stop. To be honest I was afraid for my personal safety.
Usually I don't get rattled because it's rarely personal, people yell because they are frustrated at lack of equipment etc but this was really the actions of an irrational person who clearly has issues.
So I walked away and basically just lost it, cried for hours, had to get counselling and go home early. My managers are aware of this, one of them spoke to them about it and their response was that they was joking and was surprised that I took it so seriously.
Any advice here? I'm dreading working with them again.