Admitted to the Lesparre-Médoc clinic (Gironde) for behavioral problems on Tuesday, a man attacked 4 caregivers and a patient despite her painkillers.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
The emergency physicians of the Lesparre-Médoc mutualist clinic are traumatized. This Tuesday, a man admitted for behavioral problems assaulted four caregivers and another patient with the iron bar of an infusion. “In his gaze, the patient wanted to kill. The day after the shock, the medical team realizes how scared they were“, describes, bewildered, Yann Pilatre, the general manager of the Pavillon de la Mutualité, which manages all the mutualist clinics in the Gironde. Without the rapid intervention of the gendarmes who were patrolling nearby, “the worstwas to be feared, according to him.
Very “restlessWhen he arrived, this 42-year-old patient had to be strapped to a stretcher while awaiting treatment. Despite the painkillers that had been administered to him, he “unpinnedwhen going for a scan. “Very sturdyphysically, the one who was neither alcoholic nor under the influence of narcotics, became uncontrollable. A stretcher-bearer who intervened has a broken nose. Three carers were injured in the face, while the person who came for treatment was beaten.
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The mentally insane patient
An aggression which intervenes in a context already “tensedue to the lack of personnel in the emergency room. At rest this Wednesday, the victim caregivers therefore decided to resume on Thursday despite their bruises. Totally unable to exercise, only the stretcher-bearer with the broken nose is off work.
A discussion group will be led by the clinic’s psychologist this Thursday to discuss “Cold“. Immobilized by the gendarmes of the Gironde, the crazy patient was automatically interned at the Charles Perrens psychiatric hospital in Bordeaux.
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