WINONA, Minn. – Police ticketed a Winona Health patient after the hospital staff reported a nurse performing a blood-sugar test was bitten by the patient. Accused of assault was Tyler Lee Burbach, 29, of Winona. The nurse, a forearm bleeding, was treated in the hospital emergency ro0m. The incident had been in the intensive-care unit. The nurse told police that Burbach became combative during the blood-sugar check. He had calmed down by time police arrived. They described him as uncooperative and silent and declining any explanation of what happened. Burbach was not taken into custody. He was left in the hospital’s care.
