Footage emerges of doctor punching heart bypass patient in the chest

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Footage has emerged of a doctor punching a patient in the chest just after a heart bypass operation.
Highly-regarded Russian anaesthesiologist Dr Andrey Votyakov told investigators he was extremely tired after a 36-hour shift and grew angry when the patient started abusing him.

He is seen hitting the man in the face and striking his fist at his chest while he is strapped on to a bed.

The patient reportedly died later at the Federal Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery in Perm, a city in the Urals, although his death is not believed to be linked to the attack.

Dr Votyakov said: "As soon as I came into the room with my team he started to call me various derogative names. And I just got blown away by it.

"We had spent so much time with his very complicated case to help him recover and he said not a single word of gratitude.

"And then the chronic tiredness added to it. I got carried away, and I punched him several times."



Dr Votyakov said he was "very sorry" and has reportedly apologised to the patient's parents.

It happened in February and at the time the doctor was head of anaesthesiology and intensive care at the hospital.

He was sacked after the incident became public and it is being investigated by police.
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Hard to tell Carlos. You'd like to think not, but if you're exhausted then few of us behave as we normally would. I'd say the more worrying thing would be the fatigue leading to malpractice and mistakes. That's likely to be more damaging than this fella giving the bloke a slap.
 

No excuses for that, he knew exactly where he was punching him too. Should be struck off and never allowed to practice again. That's shocking behaviour, nice to see he abides by his hippocratic oath
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Hard to tell Carlos. You'd like to think not, but if you're exhausted then few of us behave as we normally would. I'd say the more worrying thing would be the fatigue leading to malpractice and mistakes. That's likely to be more damaging than this fella giving the bloke a slap.
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I agree with your point there mate.
 

Bruce Wayne said:
Hard to tell Carlos. You'd like to think not, but if you're exhausted then few of us behave as we normally would. I'd say the more worrying thing would be the fatigue leading to malpractice and mistakes. That's likely to be more damaging than this fella giving the bloke a slap.
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There was that study that says you have a bigger chance of dying later in the week when doctors and such are tired. Though not sure this is what it meant.

Crazy stuff.
 
maddison said:
No excuses for that, he knew exactly where he was punching him too. Should be struck off and never allowed to practice again. That's shocking behaviour, nice to see he abides by his hippocratic oath
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This has to be correct,no excuses
 
As Bruce already pointed out, he shouldn't have been on that long of a shift...at the same time he should recognise that people react differently when they come out of anaesthesia. I'm sure he knew that, but after 36 hours you're not really thinking straight any more. Hospital management is just as at fault for that situation.
 

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