Anesthesiologist Zachary Bird, MD, sideswiped a marked Florida Highway Patrol car with his BMW on an expressway outside of Orlando in the early morning hours of May 20th. Then things got weird.

Cuffed and stuffed into the back of a cruiser after failing field sobriety tests, Dr. Bird, 41, began to shout obscenities at highway patrol troopers and accused them of pocketing the $54,000 in cash they found in his pockets and car. As you'll see in this disturbing police video captured by the cruiser's dashboard camera, he then repeatedly and violently slammed his head against the squad car's cage partition until he gashed open his forehead. A warning: the video contains graphic images and coarse language.

With blood streaming down his face, a crazed Dr. Bird began to kick at the cruiser's partially opened back door, slamming it past its hinges. He continued to scream, asking to be taken to a hospital and demanding that the troopers stop stealing his money. When one of them tried to calm him down, Dr. Bird spit a mouthful of blood in his face.

Dr. Bird denied drinking on the night of the incident and refused to take a blood-alcohol test, but the arrest report noted the odor of alcohol inside his vehicle, observed his eyes to be glassy and bloodshot and noticed his speech was slurred.

In addition to the cash, the troopers found 2 medication bottles in Dr. Bird's car. The pills inside one of the bottles did not match the prescription for Cialis that was printed on the label. The second bottle contained a vial full of clear liquid. The troopers confiscated 2 loaded handguns from the rear passenger seat: a .44-caliber revolver and a .45 caliber automatic handgun. Dr. Bird claimed that he was going to help a friend who was "f***ing with the wrong people," the arrest report said.

He is charged with driving under the influence, 2 counts of damage to property, resisting an officer with violence and battery on an officer, says the report, and could face additional criminal charges if lab tests show the medications in the bottles are in fact illegal.

Dr. Bird worked for TeamHealth, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based clinical outsourcing firm, at the time of his arrest. A TeamHealth spokeswoman says Dr. Bird's employment contract has been terminated. He is also listed as the co-founder of the Body Sculptique Cosmetic Center in Weston. A representative there did not respond to a request for comment.

Daniel Cook