[Magdalen] Alfie Evans has died

[ME Michaud]

Someone near to me,
a former football player,
believing his mother’s case was being mishandled,
slammed an ER doc against the wall.
Restraining order!

Another guy gunned his motorcycle
though the glass doors and into the lobby.
Bollards!

In the time I was at MGH two physicians were shot.
One died. I will never forget that day.
The Chapel (endowed by Bp. Sherrill, IIRC) filled up in minutes.
And a psychiatrist was stabbed.
And countless nurses were slapped, punched or choked.
I worked on a paper “Combativeness in the emergency room.”
Turns out it’s a good thing. But needs to be managed.

I was slapped across the face by a patient. Only happened once.
Didn’t hurt. Boy, was I surprised.
-M


On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I was the on-call hospital chaplain we would sometimes get a call
> from Security: “Uh, Chaplain...we have a situation.”  I once said, “Do you
> know how we hate to hear that?”
>