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| Gun-toting psychiatrist shoots nut job who was starting a killing spree |
| 2014-07-25 |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #12 One of my biggest problems with hospitals is that they are unnecessarily |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-07-25 15:04 |
| #11 Good Shooting. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-07-25 13:56 |
| #10 Well, he's already cured one, Grom. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-07-25 13:55 |
| #9 Betcha he cures a lot more psychos than other shrinks. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-25 13:01 |
| #8 The psychiatrist then diagnosed himself with severe PTSD, and granted himself permanent disability. Obamacare problem solved. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-25 13:00 |
| #7 All the medical facilities I've worked at have had that policy. The only exception I've seen is law enforcement in the performance of their duties while at the ER or responding to a combative-patient alert. Even then, I've had hospital officials demand that the officers leave their weapon in their vehicle. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-25 12:14 |
| #6 I once talked to a guy who believed someone had implanted a chip in his brain that was monitoring his thoughts. He really wanted to get a CT scan of his head to prove himself right (this was before MRI's). I told him the chip had to be bigger than 1 cm and made out of the right kind of material to even show up on a CT scan. And he looked at me like I was crazy. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-25 11:33 |
| #5 A few year ago (2010) a guy from Yemen or the Sudan showed up at a local hospital in a taxi. He had a .357 magnum with him. He was looking for a doctor but the doctor was not there. He ended up shooting and killing a friend of ours in the parking lot. He then shot himself. From the article: "Investigators searching suspected shooter Abdo Ibssa's home found medicine for psychotic problems and a note indicating that Ibssa believed a doctor at the hospital had placed an electronic chip inside him during a 2001." Had he found the doctor he would have killed him. The hospital had armed security. Sometimes you just have make sure the gun is at the point of immediate need. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-25 10:45 |
| #4 I once knew an ER doc who carried a concealed handgun when on duty. He started doing that after he was once shot while on duty. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-25 10:24 |
| #3 It may be even more than hospital policy - that policy may be required by law, as the hospital may be defined as a 'prison' or 'mental health confinement facility' under certain conditions, with whatever gun rules apply to those. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-07-25 10:19 |
| #2 Deputize the shrink. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-25 10:14 |
| #1 The hospital has a policy barring anyone except on-duty law enforcement officers from carrying weapons anywhere on its campus, a spokeswoman for the Mercy Health System said. So he saved lives, but he'll have to be terminated. From employment. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-07-25 10:11 |