Médecins sans Respect: My Doctor My Punching Bag in the Middle East………..
“Medical staff in Bahrain are up in arms following a new assault on a nurse by an angry sickle cell patient, three days after a doctor was seriously injured in an attack by a patient’s relatives. The nurse, an Indian national, was assaulted after she refused to give a patient a second dose of morphine, less than four hours after she injected him when he walked in complaining of severe pain…….”
“Bahrain Authorities are reviewing a request by medical professionals to open a full-fledged police station at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC), to tackle continued assaults and threats against hospital staff. The Bahrain Medical Society (BMS) has appealed for action, saying healthcare workers were repeatedly being targeted by patients and their families – particularly in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department……….”
“Grouses against the level of health care provided in Kuwait are regularly reported in the local media, especially in newspapers. It does not matter if a doctor or a nurse was hit or if one doctor assaulted one patient. Such everyday fights must end. No one has any right to assault the other person simply because they are dissatisfied with the level of service rendered…….. There should be proper legislation in place; one that forbids a person, the attacker in case if he or she were a visitor, to receive treatment from the same medical facility where he or she carried out the act. Another form of punishment should also be created against the perpetrator…….”
“Three Kuwaiti men launched a brutal physical assault against the head of the Chest Disease Hospital's cardiology department, Dr. Ali Al-Sayegh, when he asked them to leave a women-only ward. Security staff at the hospital held the three men until police arrived to take them into custody at Shuwaikh police station, where Dr. Al-Sayegh lodged an official complaint against the violent trio……….”
“Egyptian Doctor Raouf Amin languishes in a Saudi jail and is punished with 70 lashes once a week. Cut off from his family in Egypt, the 52-year-old doctor was convicted for prescribing painkillers to a Saudi princess that led to her addiction. An appeal court judge ruled that Amin will be beaten weekly until he has received 1,500 lashes – and then he’ll spend another 14 years behind bars…….”
“One in 10 of the 591 doctors across Britain who responded to the British Medical Association said they had been physically attacked. Of these, 5% were seriously injured, and a third suffered minor injuries. However, the BMA said many did not report the incidents, suggesting an increasing acceptance of violence. Physical assaults reported by doctors in England, Scotland and Wales included being punched, kicked, bitten and spat on. ……”
Even the British are getting into the act.
In the Middle East, potentates and their retainers are shipped to Europe (and America) for medical treatment, at public expense of course. Many are even flown to their treatment on private jets, at public expense. The rest, the Arabian plebs, are crowded into the local health care system. Hence the frustrations and anger.
In America, disgruntled patients are more practical, they sue their doctors and hospitals. Good news is: most doctors in American can afford it.
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