Knife gangs are breaking into hospital wards to finish off their stab victims

Working in a London hospital, you get used to dealing with the after-effects of gang fights. But you don’t expect to see them. 

Of the many horrible things you might witness as a junior doctor in the capital, among the worst must be watching a teenage gang trying to break into the ward you work on, hoping to finish off a victim, punching your colleagues out of the way to get to him.

Where I work, there’s a ‘code red’ every day. That’s what we call the arrival of a stabbing victim. The patient is almost always a teenager. We should provide a safe refuge. But just a few weeks into…