Posted on 01/20/2015 9:28:40 AM PST by pabianice
A surgeon has been shot and has life-threatening injuries at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The gun has been recovered. No word on the assailant.
Talk of installing metal detectors and door security at hospitals. I’d think that would make entry and exit from most hospitals nearly impossible.
Good thing they recovered the gun before it did any more harm.
Well thank goodness the Gun is in custody because we ALL know that it is the reason the Surgeon was shot.
It couldn’t possibly be the scumbag that aimed it and pulled the trigger.
Prayers up for the Doc.
suspect in custody
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/20/1-shot-suspect-in-custody-at-boston-hospital/
Yep, we clearly need a new law that prevents a gun from killing someone like this!
Does he stay awake during surgery and help the other doctor stitch him up?
livestream
http://www.myfoxboston.com/category/246064/breaking-news-livestream
presser scheduled for 1pm
Doctors are very vulnerable. This may be a personal dispute, but sometimes people blame them, rightly or wrongly, for some treatment that didn’t go well or something of that nature. And hospitals simply can’t be ultra-secure locations by their very nature.
It must have been a relative of this guy:
I don’t know why we always keep beating around the bush and not just simply ban all crime instead.
I visited someone in the hospital this weekend and I carried anyway. If they install detectors it will be another place I will not voluntarily visit.
That was...remarkably uninformative.
(Not your fault.)
Victim a cardiologist, according to FoxNews. Not a surgeon.
How could this happen in a gun-free zone!? ‘/S’
Impossible. Boston has very strict gun control laws.
Hospitals care about one thing and that’s good public relations.They refuse to place metal detectors at their entrances because of the inconvenience to the public.
Granted in certain areas it may be a necessity to have metal detectors to detect weapons like at psychiatric units,but otherwise it just isn’t done.
Hospitals are targets for terror attacks but you would never know it with the way they protect themselves.
In 2000 my daughter had to visit an emergency room in CO Springs. We not only had to go through metal detectors, I had to have a wristband to continue with her past the entrance. I mentioned to my friend with me something bad had happened at that hospital.
Sure enough, researched it. Two shootings had happened inside the hospital. I think one was domestic - husband shot wife - and the other gang related. Could be wrong on 2nd one.
Got to understand to also that even as a visitor, to see even a metal detector at the front of a hospital, when most of the time, you are visiting someone who is either is ill or injured it would be seen as more stress producing to the visiting person.
If only there were laws that made shooting people a crime, these guns would just be inanimate objects.
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