Mental patient escapes briefly during transfer

July 24, 2008 Hospital, News, Patient escapes, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Ranting, unhappy patients No Comments

This poor psychiatric patient, with no significant criminal record doesn’t like being confined and forcefully drugged against his will, tried to run for freedom when he was being transfered into a new psychiatric hospital. I think it’s safe to say that hes not happy with his “treatment”.

From Staff Reports | The News Observer
A mental patient briefly escaped from John Umstead Hospital in Butner on Monday as staff were moving him to a new psychiatric hospital nearby.

According to a police report, the patient was being loaded onto a bus with other patients being transferred to Central Regional Hospital, a new $130 million building less than a mile away.

The patient stated he didn’t want to go to the new hospital and took off running.

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