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Growing number of nurses being abused inside hospitals

By CBS Philadelphia  
   November 10, 2014

Following up on a CBS3 investigation started in May, a growing number of nurses are being abused inside hospitals locally and around the country. The latest happened in Minnesota. Surveillance video from a Minneapolis hospital shows a 68-year-old patient attacking nurses with a bar pulled from the side of his hospital bed. Described as being delusional and paranoid, the patient starts in the nurses' station and chases them into a hallway, hitting four of them. The police chief Paul Schnell says, "Two of them actually fell down in the hallway and they were repeatedly struck by the man with the pole."

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