Posted on 06/02/2022 9:05:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A man who blamed his surgeon for ongoing pain after a recent back surgery bought an AR-style rifle hours before opening fire at a Tulsa medical office, killing the surgeon and three other people before fatally shooting himself, police said Thursday.
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin says the gunman had recently undergone back surgery and had called a clinic repeatedly complaining of pain.
Franklin says the doctor who performed the surgery, Dr. Preston Phillips, was killed Wednesday, along with another doctor, a receptionist and a patient.
“We also have a letter on the suspect, which made it clear that he came in with the intent to kill Dr. Phillips and anyone who got in his way,” Franklin said. “He blamed Dr. Phillips for the ongoing pain following the surgery.”
Authorities said the gunman carried a rifle and handgun during the shooting at the medical building on a hospital campus, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.
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They will still blame the guns.
Could have just given the physician negative feedback on Yelp
Did the dead quack inform him that only 40% of back surgeries are successful??
Brought to by the government who first made pain the sixth vital signs and punished hospitals for under treating pain….then decided there was an opioid crisis and pain is over treated.
And the patients suffer
And pain can make you crazy
How can this be
Freaking government needs the hell out of health care and before those in whom heads I live rent free opine, never have I ever been for the government intrusion of medicine
While this fact will be lost on the larger gun debate this is as predictable as day follows night.
So yesterday his wife had botched surgery and now it his back pain. The press, in their effort to get an exclusive scoop on everything gets everything wrong.
Your numbers are no longer correct. Proper back surgery for proper pathology is quite successful. Calling all surgeons quacks is broadly over general. But the conga line of the medical illiterati will soon arrive. You appear to be leading said parade.
I personally do not care for pain pills so I do not use them unless it is dire straights but this war on pain killers began because the weak, addicted types were ODing and dying and so the Leftists being the do-gooders they are set about by making it difficult as possible to get help with pain..
Ive had lower back pain for quite some time and was lied to for 15 years about it. Maybe I should show this article to my old set of doctors and ask their opinion.
Yes!
I had major surgery in December and they sent me home with only Tylenol 3.
I was in so much pain. Finally my gp who had nothing to do with the surgery, gave me Norco for a couple of weeks.
The surgeon was so terrified i get hooked.
I was like this is nuts. I have never drank even and have zero history.
Thank God for my GP was really angry he had to do their dirty work.
Killer repeatedly called the doctor’s office immediately after surgery. The doctor saw him again. Killer killed the next day. His pain didn’t stop him from purchasing the 2 guns. I’m curious if he was an addict before surgery.
A wounded bear will kill you outright.
And the “pain management” and chronic back problems are often linked. Not just because the back problems cause pain, but because people who have back injuries and then are subscribed opiates often go on to injure their backs further, instead of resting and recuperating until the pain goes away. Then they just get hooked on opiates because without them, the pain is going to be constant.
“A man”. “the gunman”. Nobody knows who he was. He just materialized from another dimension.
He may have had a bad bedside manner but he did have a Harvard medical degree if that says anything.
Nonetheless, you are correct but I read that something like less than 35% are somewhat successful.
People expect to somehow abuse themselves, or not, and be pain free. That just does not happen. You get old, you get beat up and you will hurt.
I have had two major spine surgeries and still have major pain but never once blamed it on my surgeon. You go into spine surgeries with the knowledge that there are no guarantees of improvement but there are risks of things being worse. I’m not going to second guess whether the shooter was informed by the surgeon or not. I do have questions if maybe there was a medication issue like the doctor declining to keep writing prescriptions for pain meds.
Another ignorant selfish bastard who didn’t shoot himself first.
“Did the dead quack inform him that only 40% of back surgeries are successful??”
While doctors are better than they used to be there are a few (&^%(^%) out there who come across as heartless and condescending. In general today, there is paperwork you sign that outlines all the potentially bad outcomes and their probability. A surgeon recently was quoted about the pre-pubescent patients who had undergone surgery for a sex change that they would never be capable of achieving sexual satisfaction. Screeching stop! Doctors are performing these vanity surgeries and apparently not telling anyone!?
AS for Trans surgery, I predict that there will be lawsuits galore. In a few years they will be viewed like making eunuchs or performing lobotomies. I can’t believe insurance companies haven’t outlawed the procedure.
He reportedly bought the rifle an hour or so before the shootings.
Is there no waiting period in Oklahoma?
Many thoughts, but only a few are proper.
I wake up every morning and give thanks that I have a very high pain threshold.
I had my second knee surgery in late January (at age 66). The Orthopedic was concerned about pain management, so he prescribed both Tylenol 3 and Hydrocodone. He insisted I fill them, just in case. I did, and they now sit unopened on my counter.
I had told him about my high pain tolerance, but he was doing what his experience indicated. Against his recommendation, I ran a 5k three days after surgery. The swelling was more of a problem. He again advised me to NOT run a half marathon 5 weeks after surgery. But, after a full discussion about the swelling, dehydration, and expectations, he became my largest cheerleader.
Doc told me that he wished all of his patients had my attitude of dealing with adversity.
As I began, I am thankful that I have been blessed with a high pain threshold. All of life is not lollipops and rainbows.
Gwjack
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