Patients Die As Pakistani Lawyers Ransack Lahore Hospital

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

Doctors and lawyers are like Crips and Bloods there, apparently.

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Three patients died when hundreds of lawyers attacked a hospital in Lahore during a furious dispute with doctors.

Video showed the lawyers ransacking wards at the cardiac hospital, beating up staff and smashing equipment.

As panic spread, doctors and paramedics hid, leaving patients unattended, including those in a critical state.

Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the lawyers and more than 20 arrests were made. It took more than two hours to restore order, officials said.

The lawyers had been protesting over the alleged mistreatment of some of their colleagues by hospital staff last month.

But the final trigger for the violence appears to have been a video posted on social media by a doctor on Tuesday night in which he poked fun at the lawyers.

Could make for a Very Special Episode of Suits and/or ER over here. 

[Armybrat 41327]

Good god, I had no idea there were so many Surly dots.

[HornsOverIthaca 2339]

The only true lawyers is born lawyers dawg

[conVINCEd 21477]

Give me $5 on the guys with scalpels and bone saws.

[High Plains Drifter 11162]

 

Your move, Florida.

[Dr Fear 1286]

 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2779]

I bet there was a whole new level of shouting.  

[Henry Hill 3156]

It went down like this:

Except with more deaths.

Edited December 13, 2019 by Henry Hill

[DaysOff 8157]

Meh. It's not like lawyers take a hippocratic oath.

[Victorious1 181]

need to outlaw sticks.  then we wouldn't have this sort of violence...

[Your Mom 4956]

1 hour ago, Dr Fear said:

 

Username is appropriate.

[Dr Fear 1286]

1 minute ago, Your Mom said:

Username is appropriate.

and I'm actually a lawyer.

[Your Mom 4956]

Even better

[HornsOverIthaca 2339]

36 minutes ago, Dr Fear said:

and I'm actually a lawyer.

I’m officially terrified

[Blotto 23975]

Pretty savvy move. Now the lawyers can sue the hospital/doctors for not taking the obvious precautionary steps to prevent this from happening in the first place. These patients didnt have to die!

Edited December 13, 2019 by Blotto

[Cajun 11771]

Those kooky Pakis!

Such pranksters.

[BearSchlong 8233]

You mean to tell me there are Pakistani doctors who haven't emigrated to the US?

They were outgunned, outmanned, outplanned.

Edited December 13, 2019 by BearSchlong

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

3 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

Give me $5 on the guys with scalpels and bone saws.

This was in Pakistan, not Saudi Arabia

[RPM 26564]

Oh! You strenuously object. Then I'll take some time and reconsider.

[Heisenberg 162]

I lived in Lahore as a 5th grader.  It generally smells like a feedlot on a hot day and I can still hear the flies buzzing.  A hot summer day there means 115-120 degrees.

The best thing was being able to buy a grocery sack full amount of dangerous fireworks for the equivalent of $2.00 US 365 days a year.  I had a $5.00/week allowance; the expatriate compound sounded like a war zone most every day.  I heard later you could buy a key of Afghanistan hash for $50.00, over the counter.

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

Your mom's a Lahore. 

[Dennis Taylor 19292]

When ambulance chasing is not enough...

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2649]

Gangs of New York level shit 

[UDontKnow 10558]

On 12/13/2019 at 6:24 AM, Armybrat said:

Good god, I had no idea there were so many Surly dots.

Dots in Pakistan? Or is my sarcasm detector broken, Grampa Simpson?

[Armybrat 41327]

25 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

Dots in Pakistan? Or is my sarcasm detector broken, Grampa Simpson?

Sorry, I was still thinking in my pre-1947 independence mode.

[Steel Shank 9533]

This reminds me of the scene in Anchorman where all the news guys throw down.