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Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2012
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Two days ago the son of a former patient gunned down a Cardiothoracic surgeon at Bringham and Women's hospital while the physician was in the hospital seeing patients. Unfortunately Dr. Davidson died of his wounds and the gunman took his own life as well.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/one-person-hurt-seriously-in-shooting-at-boston-hospital-1421774598
I am an Emergency Medicine physician and this is my nightmare. All but one of the emergency departments that I have worked in have had metal detectors to get into the emergency department. The current hospital I work at does not have a metal detector and it makes me uneasy. I work in a fairly rural community and often have patient's who carry knives in to their rooms with them because they carry them on an every day basis. There are no firearms allowed on the premises but there's no one really checking so who knows.
This person came through the general entrance and there are very few hospitals that have metal detectors at all entrances. Most administrators say that having the metal detectors gives the wrong impression about the hospital and is frightening for patients and their families.
So I ask you, as a patent or visitor would you feel more or less safe if a hospital that you entered had metal detectors?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/one-person-hurt-seriously-in-shooting-at-boston-hospital-1421774598
I am an Emergency Medicine physician and this is my nightmare. All but one of the emergency departments that I have worked in have had metal detectors to get into the emergency department. The current hospital I work at does not have a metal detector and it makes me uneasy. I work in a fairly rural community and often have patient's who carry knives in to their rooms with them because they carry them on an every day basis. There are no firearms allowed on the premises but there's no one really checking so who knows.
This person came through the general entrance and there are very few hospitals that have metal detectors at all entrances. Most administrators say that having the metal detectors gives the wrong impression about the hospital and is frightening for patients and their families.
So I ask you, as a patent or visitor would you feel more or less safe if a hospital that you entered had metal detectors?