Prosecutors said the nurse was went in to adjust the oxygen tube on the patient's nose when he grabbed her by the neck and cut her near the carotid artery.
A patient receiving care at a Massachusetts hospital cut a nurse in the neck as she tried to adjust his oxygen tube Monday night, prosecutors said at the man's arraignment Tuesday.
A person speaking on his behalf said Nichols has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer and is on hospice care, having been told he has six months to live. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf to charges of assault and battery with a deadly weapon and attempting to commit a crime.
In court, prosecutors said the nurse was went in to adjust the oxygen tube on Nichols' nose when he grabbed her by the neck and cut her near the carotid artery, the vessel that supplies blood to the brain, with a pocket knife, but did not puncture the artery. Afterward, he was handcuffed to the bed
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