THE DANGERS OF ACADEMIA: STUDENT IMPALED BY FOLDER

Last Saturday started out like any other day for first year nursing student Rachel, 18. She had a busy day ahead of her as she made preparations for a Christmas meal with her flatmates whilst getting ready for a big night out in Portsmouth. However, her day took a sudden turn for the worse when she accidentally trod on a closed ring binder, which somehow came open and impaled her foot.

Hearing Rachel’s cries, her flatmates called Glen Eyre reception, only to be told “nobody on duty has got any first aid training, you’d better call an ambulance bruv”.  An hour passed before two paramedics finally arrived on the scene, only to inform Rachel that they would need to call back up due to the complex nature of her injury. Almost another hour of agonising pain went by before the Hazardous Area Response Team arrived at South Hill – this brought the total up to 6 paramedics and 3 ambulances. They tore up Rachel’s blood stained notes and cut away the rest of the folder, leaving only the clamp still sticking out the bottom of her foot.