Posted on 07/24/2014 6:59:15 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
DARBY, Pa. (TheBlaze/AP) — A psychiatrist who was grazed by gunfire from a patient at a suburban Philadelphia hospital Thursday helped stop the gunman by apparently using his own weapon to shoot and wound him, but not before a caseworker was killed, authorities said.
A patient opened fire after entering the doctor’s office at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital with the caseworker, District Attorney Jack Whelan said. Witnesses reported hearing yelling before the gunshots.
A spokeswoman for Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital said the facility has a policy prohibiting anyone except on-duty law enforcement officers from carrying a weapon anywhere on its campus. It appears at the moment that the unnamed doctor decided to defy that policy in order to defend himself.
But Yeadon Police Chief Donald Molineux said that “without a doubt, I believe the doctor saved lives.”
“Without that firearm, this guy (the patient) could have went out in the hallway and just walked down the offices until he ran out of ammunition,” the chief said.
It wasn’t clear if the incident has the hospital reconsidering its policy against trained staff carrying concealed firearms.
Several hours after the shooting, investigators had only limited information about what happened inside the closed office but believe the psychiatrist, “from all accounts, would have acted in self-defense,” Whelan said.
The doctor, who suffered a wound to his head, “faced a situation where his life was in jeopardy,” Whelan said. He was expected to be interviewed by detectives late Thursday.
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Zikai-i-trysts are too crazy to be issued weapons.
Okay, so someone ask the doctor and his family if they’d rather he violated someone’s ‘rules’ or if they’d rather he were dead.
Sorry, my life is more important than your ‘rules.’
many actually are in the care of other psychiatrists. i kid you not. how they can then go on to treat others while being under care themselves is beyond me, acting like they know what’s best for others.
freud knew it was all about getting rich people to open up about all their secrets and being vulnerable.
According to Democrat politicians, the doctor should have allowed himself to be killed, along with as many others as the evil and insane perpetrator could nail before she ran out of ammunition.
They should all have been happy to sacrifice their lives rather than take the risk of defending themselves with a firearm.
Cognitive science has come a long way since Freud.
your neck of the woods self-defense ping
Yabut, they will be the wons to determine if the gov’t will grab your gunz sooner rather than later....
Still, I’d bet most psychiatrists know enough to use capital letters when appropriate.
He’s obviously sane as he recognizes that the folks he treats are a threat to others.
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Cognitive science has come a long way since Freud.
Sure has.
Sometimes a gun is just a gun.
Looks like the author of the article has heard the expression, "When a short time later counts, police are just minutes away."
tablet typing’s faster. don’t like it, don’t respond.
but i know you do like it. :-)
He’ll get fired. Should have used his panic button.
It’s not the gun that kills, its the projectile.
Sure has.
Sometimes a gun is just a gun.
Depends on whether its cocked. {{{RIMSHOT}}}
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