“I don’t know if I’ll go back to the emergency room”

The doctor, attacked by a patient at the Moscati hospital in Aversa, in the Caserta area, indulged in reflections on what happened to her, declaring that she was not sure she wanted to return to working in the emergency room.

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More attacks against healthcare workers. This time, it was the turn of a young doctor on duty at the Emergency room of the San Giuseppe Moscati hospital in Aversain the Caserta area, being attacked by a patient who complained about too long waiting times and therefore threw a computer and a printer at the doctor, who remedied a chest contusion e a graze on his left armjudged to be curable in 30 days.

“The mood is one of great disappointment, but I will continue to be a doctor, perhaps no longer in the emergency room” declared the doctor. He continues: “Verbal attacks are the order of the day. I try to resist because I feel connected to this second family that I found at the Moscati hospital, but I don’t deny that the fear of working here has grown exponentially since the first the day I set foot there as a medical director, however, I am not discouraged.” The doctor filed a complaint after the attack.

The Caserta Medical Association will be a civil party

Solidarity with the doctor attacked at Moscati in Aversa has reachedOrder of Doctors of Caserta who, in the figure of the president Carlo Manzihas made it known that he will be a civil party in the trial against the person responsible for the attack. “The Board of Directors of the Order of Doctors-Surgeons and Dentists of Caserta, as a matter of urgency, has decided to file a civil action following yet another episode of aggression against a doctor on duty in the emergency room of the Moscati hospital in Aversa” said Manzi.

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