After Las Vegas: What is the change that needs to occur?

Las Vegas: 59 dead, 500+ injured. I worry about our medical colleagues who will suffer tremendously while treating the injured; they will be wracked with guilt for the patients they could not help and false back to the horror of that night and the ensuing days and weeks caring for the living. We must find ways to support each other help them cope as well as looking for sensible solutions. My son was 18 months old when the Columbine shootings took place. The school and nearby park were where we spent many hours playing. I was shocked, and grief-stricken. I had friends whose children were trapped at the school, and others whose children escaped. Watching the images – of my neighborhood, my park, my community surrounded by police, with students marching out of the school — was gut-wrenching. That was where my baby played on the swings, dug in the sand, ran joyously over the hills. How could this be happening? Helicopters, police in riot gear, weeping children and adults, gathering where he chased butterflies. Bodies lying on the ground, blood seeping slowly, people huddled in the bushes where we played hide-and-seek. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs