Brawl at Sacred Heart Hospital Results in Season-Long Suspensions for Doctors Artest and Jackson

Two Other Doctors , Two Nuses and One Visitor Also Facing Discipline and Possibly Criminal Charges

Sacred Heart Hospital officials say they've never seen anything like it, and intend to never see it again. Four doctors and two nurses have been immediately suspended and may face a season long suspension for their part in an ugly brawl that began when Dr. Artest disagreed with Dr. Jackson's diagnosis of a patient. What makes this particular hospital brawl stand out from other recent brawls is that this time the action spilled over to include not just patients, but even family members in the waiting room.

It all began when Dr. Jackson diagnosed a patient with severe foulaesnesia. Dr. Artest then apparently cried out from across the CCU that the patient actually was suffering from acute inflated importitis. Since the brawl was captured on Sacred Heart Hospital videotape, what happened next is easy to timeline.

In fact, it was not Dr. Jackson who initiated the sequence of events, but rather Nurse Wallace who strides across the CCU hall and say something inaudible. At that point Dr. Artest then seems to purposely shoulder bump Nurse Wallace as he crosses over to Dr. Jackson whereupon he said, "Don't get your bi*ch to fight our battles, be a man." Dr. Jackson responded by shoving his face into the face of Dr. Artest, asking, "Yo, motherfu***, you be saying I ain't a man?"

Dr. Artest then turns his back on Dr. Jackson and though the audio is inaudible, the video clearly reveals what he says: "Punk (SOB), couldn't get his way through med school without cheating."