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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
Wed May 25, 2016, 11:57 AM May 2016

Angry mobs are attacking doctors at hospitals in India

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/angry-mobs-are-attacking-doctors-at-hospitals-in-india/2016/05/20/26820fb8-d5c3-11e5-a65b-587e721fb231_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_draw2



By Annie Gowen - May 24 at 2:37 PM


MUMBAI — On the closed-circuit tape, the young resident doctor works on his computer in a hospital ward as a patient and two men approach. The patient, who police say was frustrated by delay in treatment, confronts the doctor, hitting him and then picking up a nearby chair and bringing it sharply down on his head.

The late April incident in a city in the western state of Maharashtra is one of a growing number of attacks on doctors in health-care facilities in India by patients or their families unhappy with the quality of care. The trend has prompted strikes by health-care workers throughout the country and calls for new laws and greater security in emergency rooms and intensive care units.

Some doctors have sought permission to carry guns.

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Three out of 4 doctors in India have reported some kind of verbal or physical abuse in the workplace, according to an Indian Medical Association survey, with more than half of those assaults occurring in intensive care wards and surgical units involving families or other escorts of patients. The confrontations are often sparked by a sudden, unexpected death, a delay in providing care, denial of admission due to overcrowding or allegations of abuse or negligence by staff.

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Angry mobs are attacking doctors at hospitals in India (Original Post) FrodosPet May 2016 OP
Caste system, too many people at the bottom, the heat. LiberalArkie May 2016 #1
Without a good government run single payer system this will start happening here StarTrombone May 2016 #2

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
1. Caste system, too many people at the bottom, the heat.
Wed May 25, 2016, 12:01 PM
May 2016

I feel that the system in India is what some want in the U.S.

 

StarTrombone

(188 posts)
2. Without a good government run single payer system this will start happening here
Wed May 25, 2016, 12:04 PM
May 2016

As private for-profit healthcare becomes more unaffordable and inaccessible to the 99%

Besides it seems that most of their medical personnel are over here which must create shortages

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