RT Journal
A1 Kelen GD, Catlett CL
T1 VIolence in the health care setting
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD December 8
VO 304
IS 22
SP 2530
OP 2531
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.1795
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1795
AB 
On a September morning like any other, the son of an 84-year-old woman with cancer shot her surgeon outside his mother's hospital room in our medical center. He was presumably distraught over a poor surgical outcome. After taking refuge in her room, he proceeded to kill his mother and commit suicide. The surgeon survived the shooting. This triple shooting raises fundamental issues. Has the medical workplace become inherently dangerous, and if so, why? To what extent should health institutions secure the environment?