Why couldn't they handcuff her?
Good question. 2 nurses, a deputy, the mother, presumeably a doctor and who knows how many other hospital workers... I guess they were all too skeert.
OTOH, I'm married to a gadget freak and sometimes just have to walk away when he's trying to complicate a simple job by using a new toy.
Only the deputy would be carrying handcuffs. Really, a take down in I presume a small hospital examining room can get quite messy. And they still can bite and sratch, pull hair etc.
I just remember from a similiar incident, my shoulder will never be the same. And I wasn't Skeert!!
They don't teach boxing or martial arts in Medical School or nursing school.
I know nurses that have been very seriously injured by patients.