As reported by The Australian News, on August 1st, a Japanese doctor punched a patient during surgery and told him to “shut up” after the patient on local anesthesia asked for the operation to stop. He punched the poor patient on the forehead when the patient, at the national Shiga Hospital, wiggled during the surgery and yelled “Please stop the operation”.

The doctor then reacted by giving the patient “a hand” and said: “Stay still! Shut up!”

The operation was stopped. The physician and a hospital executive later visited the patient to apologise. It takes five days for the patient to heal his forehead.

Three weeks after the incident, the original operation was conducted, by another doctor of course.