The pocketbook supports healthcare professionals in openly dealing with feelings of disgust. The author explains the connections between disgust, shame, and violence through numerous examples. Furthermore, measures and strategies are proposed on how each employee, the team, and the institution can ensure a healthy and manageable approach to situations that provoke disgust. Practical tips, self-tests, and exercises actively engage the reader in the discussion and facilitate handling disgust-inducing situations in everyday work. An open approach to this topic benefits both the team and the patient or resident. Caregivers and other healthcare professionals regularly encounter situations that can evoke disgust as part of their job. Dealing with large wounds, pressure sores, amputations, incontinence, or artificial body openings is part of their daily work.