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Editor's note
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On 18 February, 2014 Dr Michael Wong was stabbed 14 times in the foyer of Melbourne’s Western Hospital in Footscray. Today he recounts the attack, including the moment when he was forced to turn his head “so a blow coming at my eye instead landed on my skull”. Being a neurosurgeon, he knew what such a blow could do.
After surgery and months of intensive physiotherapy, Dr Wong was able to return to work and operate again. But others haven’t been so lucky. In May this year, heart surgeon and father of two Patrick Pritzward-Stegmann was punched in the head outside Box Hill hospital. He died in intensive care four weeks later.
Since his recorvery Dr Wong has operated on two hospital employees who were also victims of violence. The injuries will continue, he warns, until hospital administrators and governments get serious about making security a priority.
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Sasha Petrova
Deputy Editor, Health + Medicine
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Dr Michael Wong is telling his story to campaign for better hospital security.
Michael Wong, University of Melbourne
Melbourne neurosurgeon Dr Michael Wong was stabbed in a hospital foyer in February, 2014. He recalls his attack with painful clarity and calls for better protection for hospital staff.
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