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3 years after I left the last hospital trauma center I ran...this happened:
Officer Killed in Hospital ShootingFriday, September 30, 2005 | 6:44 PMSuspect in Custody LANGHORNE, Pa. (AP) -Sept. 30, 2005 -- Two neighboring police departments pitched in to patrol the streets of tiny Newtown Borough on Friday, a day after a hospital shooting left one of the borough's four officers dead and another wounded.
Officer Brian Steven Gregg, 46, was killed Thursday night after he and officer James Joseph Warunek, 31, scuffled with a drunken-driving suspect they had taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Bucks County, for routine blood and urine tests.
Police said the suspect, Robert A. Flor, 38, grabbed Warunek's gun and fired five shots, killing Gregg and wounding Warunek.
And 1 year ago, one of the hospitals dealing with victims of the VA tech shooting had a prisoner steal a sheriffs gun and shot a hospital security guard .
Not a safe place to work......
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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