Woman forced to call 911 after being locked in acupuncture clinic mid-treatment

A patient at a Texas acupuncture clinic was forced to call police and pull out the needles herself after the clinician went home mid-treatment, leaving her locked inside.



The woman called 911 after she saw acupuncturist Dr Jeff Tsing leave Arlington's Hwa Tow Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs Clinic while the pins were still stuck in her skin on August 5th. The disoriented patient woke up on a treatment table.

“I'm locked in someone's business establishment,” the woman reported. “I don’t hear anybody. The music went off. The door is locked and his car is gone. I was in the middle of a treatment. All of the sudden, I saw him running out for someone to come. I ended up pulling the needles out."


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"I had to pull the needles out of me in order to, you know, find out what's going on. I'm yelling for help for about five minutes or so." The caller stayed on the line about 10 minutes. Police arrived as a worker at a separate office in the building let her out. Dr Tsing, who with his wife are the only two employees, said he was ashamed, and is baffled as to how he forgot his patient.