Nov 9, 2009 7:04 pm US/Eastern
Doctor Stabbed In Office Attack Comes Home
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Dr. Astrid Desrosiers returned home from the hospital on November 9.
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Paul Langone, an off-duty security guard, shot Carciero as he attacked the doctor.
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Jay Carciero
Lucy Komisar of The Komisar Scoop
The Mass. General psychiatrist who was stabbed and seriously wounded during one of her appointments about two weeks ago is out of the hospital.
Dr. Astride Desrosiers arrived home to continue her recovery from what the Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley had described as a "grievous" medical condition.
Watch: Raw Video Of Doctor's Return
Boston Police say the Dr. Desrosiers was repeatedly stabbed by her patient, Jay Carciero of Reading, during their session at her Staniford Street office in Mass. General's bipolar clinic. Carciero was then shot to death by off-duty special police officer Paul Langone after failing to drop the knife as Langone told him to.
The D.A. has said the preliminary investigation shows Langone acted lawfully.
The doctor did not speak and gestured toward her neck with one of her bandaged hands. WBZ's Ron Sanders asked her husband Claude, who spoke for her Monday afternoon, what she has to say about Langone. "She's very happy about him saving her life and it's because of him that she's alive today," he said.
Watch: Husband on Wife's Homecoming
Sanders asked Langone's father for reaction to the doctor's homecoming. "This is the best news we could possibly have. We've been praying for the doctor. I saw it on the 12 o'clock news. She looks like she's doing very well. We're praying for a complete recovery," said Paul Langone.
Neighbors had raked the Desrosiers' yard and decorated it with Mylar "Get Well" balloons for her return. "The neighbors have been great. They have brought us food and all the prayers have been working and I'm very happy to be here. My headache will finally be gone," said Claude Desrosiers.
Friends say Dr. Desrosiers is well-liked and much appreciated for her work in Boston's Haitian community. "She wants to get back to all her patients. She loves all her patients and we appreciate everything everyone has been doing," said her husband but he put no time line on that.
Eventually, he said, she will tell everyone her story.
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