Former patient stabs female doctor in hospital

Doctor at Weilheim hospital stabbed to death by former patients

03/03/2011

In Weilheim hospital a doctor was fatally injured by a former patient by a knife attack. Despite promptly initiated emergency surgery, the doctor died shortly after the attack on the injuries suffered.

The shock is deep. For the doctors, employees and patients of the hospital Weilheim on Thursday morning at 8.45 clock terrifying scenes have played. A 65-year-old man attacked his former doctor with wild knife wounds and injured the 47-year-old physician hard in the chest area. Although immediately an emergency operation was initiated, the physician died a few minutes after the fact of her serious injuries, so the message of the police headquarters Upper Bavaria South in Rosenheim.

Patient makes targeted knife attack against his former doctor
The 65-year-old from the area of ​​the Upper Bavarian Weilheim originating offenders had deliberately attacked his former doctor, other people had not been attacked and after the fact he had resisted without arrest by the police, said a spokesman for the police department. From a rampage with indiscriminate victims can be no question, the spokesman for the Bureau further. Whether a dispute over the earlier treatment of the man was possibly the cause of the deadly knife attack in the hospital, the investigators could not clarify so far.

Escalating dispute between doctors and patients?
The facts are still completely unclear, it was said from the direction of the police. However, it often happens that the dispute between doctors and patients about the right treatment escalates. In particular, when unforeseen developments occur and the measures taken have no effect, this is incomprehensible to many patients and causes massive annoyance. The fact that those affected subsequently act violently against their doctor is, although rather the rare exception, regrettably still occurs too often in reality. (Fp)

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