Attacked by the brother-in-law of a patient in the emergency room ChiariIt happens again, once again to the detriment of public health personnel. The umpteenth attack, which brings the spotlight back on the unresolved tensions in hospital corridors, especially in the emergency room, which make the work of doctors and nurses increasingly difficult.
Medical director of Chiari emergency room attacked
The latest case right in Chiari, on the day of Ferragosto. The victim herself tells the story, in a bitter post on Facebook. It is GC, medical director of the Clarense Emergency Department, resident in Castelli Calepio (Bg).
The doctor was about to discharge a patient, a woman resident in Coccaglio, but for trivial reasons (related to the logistics of returning home, according to what emerged) neither she nor her brother-in-law, who was accompanying her, agreed with the decision of the emergency room staff. Hence the argument, in which the medical director also intervened. The patient allegedly attacked one of the nurses on duty, spitting on her, while her brother-in-law, who also lives in Coccaglio, he grabbed the doctor by the neck. The marks left by the attacker’s hand on the doctor’s neck are unmistakable, and he posted a selfie on Facebook to show what happened.
The parable of the hospital workers, from heroes to “cannon fodder”
The outburst that accompanies the photo is bitter, and reflects on the absurd trajectory of his category: the Covid emergency is over, in which doctors and nurses they had been (rightly) called heroesare now forced to work in often decidedly precarious safety conditions, at the mercy of an increasingly embittered and, at times, dangerous public.
“One day it’s a scratch, another day it’s a stab”
“I’ve been working in the Emergency Room for about 10 years – the doctor writes – The staff receives insults of all kinds every single day that go in through our right ear and out through our left. We are incompetent, we are lazy, we don’t take care of the patients… Then strangely enough when they really have something worthy of note, they arrive with their tails between their legs and we are heroes (see COVID emergency). Politics, the ASST or minister pinco pallino have nothing to do with this. This is the brain of the people. It doesn’t matter if it happened in Milan, Rome or Palermo. It happened. This photo must go around the world because one day it’s a scratch, another day it’s a stab…”.