Global & Disaster Medicine

A bustling Bronx hospital had been turned into a corridor of horrors.

July 2nd, 2017

NY Times

  • “Go and hide! Go and hide!”
  • Dr. Tam had been fatally shot in the chest
  • A medical student who was shot in the head sustained a grievous brain injury.
  • Another bullet bored into the liver of a second-year resident in family medicine. There were more gunshot wounds, all of them severe — to a gastrointestinal fellow’s hand, a medical student’s abdomen and a medical resident’s neck.
  • Doctors dragged their colleagues and patients out of harm’s way and put them on elevators
  • “Wherever the doctors found them, they grabbed them, took them out,” Dr. Sridhar Chilimuri, Bronx-Lebanon’s physician in chief.
  • “The active shooting was still happening while we had them in the operating room. It’s pretty remarkable how well everybody functioned.”
  • Had doctors and nurses not treated the victims immediately, those who were shot might not have lived.
  • By Saturday, two victims — those with the brain and liver injuries — remained in critical condition, while the rest had been stabilized.
  • The victim with the liver wound was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan for specialized surgery.
  • The victim with the head wound was expected to remain at Bronx-Lebanon.
  • Workers hid in closets, called the police and ordered patients and their relatives to hide under beds.
  • “Someone tried to open the door and get in and we locked it.  Someone was trying to get in.”
* By Saturday morning, investigators had cleared the 16th floor and were letting hospital workers begin the long process of cleaning up.
* Blood was splattered on the floor
* Computers showed damage caused by a fire set by the gunman.
* The hospital’s 17th floor remained an active crime scene
* The hospital had closed part of the 15th floor for flood damage.
* The 11th floor was designated for victims’ families to wait and grieve.

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