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Originally Posted by Sir Pinkleton
Have you ever flipped out, on co-worker or patient, before?
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Probably and yes. I do get annoyed with my co-workers and probably tell them to shut up, but nothing really crazy comes to mind. The guy I usually work with, Steve, and most of my other partners have been great.
I flipped out at a patient once. She was a psych patient who was schizophrenic and delusional, but she did know what she was doing and was completely aware of the events around her. She decided to make our lives as difficult as possible by cursing and screaming at the top of her lungs and trying to get out of the stretcher. I let her carry on for 33 miles since antagonizing her would just make it worse. She had kicked off her blanket and was stripping naked as we pulled in so I strapped her down and put the blanket back on. As I was strapping her she managed to get a foot free and kick me in the chest hard. I sternly told her to stop but she just spat at me. I strapped her down again and as I turned to get out of the truck she twists her foot free (god knows how since I strapped her down hard) and boots me in the ass.
I pretty much turned around and sat on her legs. I look at her straight in the eye and said, "there are two ways we can do this, the easy way or my way. The easy way involves me getting up and you going into that facility with your dignity intact. My way involves me sitting here until security comes out and I put you in restraints or I'll just sit on you the whole time until we're in the facility. The choice is yours." She looks at me and nods for me to get up. As I get up she starts to spit at me again so I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her mouth, tying it at the back of her head. I then get really close to her and say, "I tried being nice, but now you've just pushed me. If I even see your hands move an inch to touch that towel, you will be going into this facility in handcuffs and I will make damned sure you spend the night in the padded restraint room." I was pretty much shaking with anger at this point and she saw that, so she stopped and behaved herself until we got her into the facility.
As she was being interviewed by the psychiatrist, I had gotten a pair of restraints from security just in case. The psychiatrist was talking very nicely to her, when she suddenly punched her in the chest. My partner tried to get her arm and she scratched him so he bled. We managed to wrestle her down on the facility stretcher and tied her up. She then tried to kick again so I planted myself right down onto her legs again and sat there until they gave her enough haldol to knock her out.