[Magdalen] Alfie Evans has died

[Jay Weigel]

I've been threatened, kicked, hit, spit on, pinched, and scratched by
patients, and threatened by family members, more times than I can count.
All in a night's work. I've been walked to my car by security more times
than I can count because of that, too. It shouldn't be all in a night's (or
day's) work, but there you are...... After awhile you get hardened to it
and can sort out what might be serious from what is "just talk". Nursing is
not for sissies, but the hospital usually doesn't back you up very well. At
least I haven't been attacked by the police, as has happened several times
recently.

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:14 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?”
> >
>