Thursday, September 16, 2010

Violence in the Hospital

Today at a hospital in Baltimore Maryland, a gunman critical injured a Doctor and later on kill himself and his mother according to the police report.
Today around noon a man who's mother was a patient of Hopking Hospital, after receiving a bad new about his mother health, pull out a gun from his weighs and overtaken by the emotion, and the stress decide to shot the doctor who's name was not reveal by the police 8 times, in the upper abdominal area, putting him in a critical condition. However this was not the only damage this individual made right after shooting the doctor he went in to the mothers room and shot her, killing her, and right after he made the decision to take away his life, the man was found by the Baltimore swat team around 1pm.
The greatest number of physical assaults occurred in emergency departments, according to the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety. Hospitals are pressure cookers as people are often distressed, mentally disturbed or intoxicated by drugs or alcohol in a highly stressful environment. All of these factors pose possible dangers to health care workers.
Now they are actually looking in to improve the security system because it becoming a problem everywhere for the attack that has been going on at hospitals and the personnel is scare of what is going on. 

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