In Aude, a patient dissatisfied with having to stay too long in the waiting room, hit a general practitioner in the face.
A new assault on a doctor took place on Tuesday. The facts took place in Limoux, in Aude, at 9 am in a general medicine cabinet, according to the newspaper the independent that tells the story.
The doctor, installed in the city center, began his day of consultation, the waiting room being already full. Furious at having to wait his turn, a man allegedly took to task the other patients, whom he insulted.
Pebble in the face
Faced with their lack of reaction, the man would then have started “drumming” on the walls, forcing the general practitioner to interrupt his consultation to manage the situation.
According to the daily, the doctor, also an Aikido enthusiast, would have tried to discuss with the attacker, in vain, then to belt him, also in vain, before receiving a volley of beatings. Then the man would then have left the cabinet.
According to testimonies reported by the regional newspaper, the doctor then dressed his swollen face and went back to work. But the attacker would have returned to the scene, even more agitated, and would have thrown a stone in the face of the doctor.
Car chase
Then follows a chase in the streets of Limoux (to the Place de la République, the newspaper specifies), the doctor running after his attacker to try to capture him, and to confuse him. Warned by the patients who remained in the waiting room, the gendarmerie put an end to the flight of the aggressor, placed in police custody.
“Since 1992 that I am installed, it is the first time that I have been attacked in this way, I am used to people under tension but here I must say that at this stage it is indeed a first” , says the practitioner, quoted by the Independent.
According to the Order of Physicians, in 2015, 924 practitioners were attacked verbally or physically. GPs are the most numerous victims. The figures show stability since 2010. In some regions, including Île-de-France, violence is receding. But urban areas remain largely the most affected.
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