Myla Lindroos was at the end of her shift Saturday night when a patient tackled her and kicked her in the stomach, she said.
Lindroos, a registered nurse at Rutland Regional Medical Center's emergency department, said she had her back against a hospital gurney. She later found a bruise on her back the size of the gurney's metal rail.
The patient, an unhoused woman who refused to be discharged from the hospital, had aimed for Lindroos' pregnant belly, Lindroos said.
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