Photo Credit: Sara Yahimovich/TPS
An Israeli man was arrested Friday after he attacked a physician in Ichilov Medical Center who was treating his wife in the intensive care unit.
This is not the first case of family violence against medical staff at Israeli hospitals and medical clinics.
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Last April relatives of a patient in the emergency room at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya attacked the medical staff, demanding a doctor tend to their relative.
Ten family members attacked nurses and other staff members at the time. A hospital security guard was injured in the confrontation.
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