50-Year-Old Man Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Nurse Who Requested Phone Etiquette

A man in his 50s who assaulted a nurse asking him to observe phone etiquette and pushed over medical equipment was sentenced to imprisonment again in the appellate court. On the 2nd, the Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 1 announced that it dismissed the appeal of A (54), who was charged with violating the Emergency Medical Services Act, and sentenced him to four months in prison, the same as the original sentence. On February 4 last year, around 7 p.m., A was making a loud phone call in the emergency room of a hospital in Wonju. When nurse B (49) asked him to "keep the call quiet," he cursed and struck her neck with the back of his hand. He was charged with damaging medical equipment worth approximately 5.8 million won by pushing over medical devices. The court stated, "There have been no changes in circumstances to consider for sentencing since the first trial, such as compensation for the damage not being made."

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