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...mental health patients. "These patients are still getting their medical evaluations in a routine emergency department. But then they are left there," says Cathi Fontenot, the hospital's medical director. "Emergency departments are not quiet areas of relaxation, especially in a trauma center like ours, where we have gunshot wounds and ambulances and patients being wheeled in and out. It is not a great environment to try to de-escalate mental health patients, as you might expect...
...corner spot on a concrete floor. That was to be his living quarters. Basic articles like toilet paper, soap and razors were not provided. There was no toilet or shower and he bathed by throwing cold water over his head. Health services were geared mostly toward treating stab and gunshot wounds, he said, unsure why he and his companions had boils forming on their skin...
Locomotor retraining is not a fix but a way to make the most of what a patient has left. It's less helpful when the spine is completely severed--by, say, a gunshot. This prevents the brain from getting any signals downstream. But most injuries are not so complete. As long as some links are present, so is potential. "The spinal-cord networks become optimized for the new situation," Harkema says, "and the brain changes as well." As that happens, entire lives--many that have just begun--change...
...came. It was Cho, back for another round, reloading his gun and firing another shot into the dead and wounded. He thinks he heard Cho reload three times, and at every shot he braced himself, thinking, "This one is for me." His mind wandered; he wondered what a gunshot wound feels like, how much it would hurt. He wondered if he would die slow or fast, and then he thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front...
...ambulances swarmed, students were carrying the wounded away from the scene; some were using their balled-up clothes to stanch the bleeding. An emergency-room doctor said there weren't any victims with fewer than three bullets in them. Dr. David Stoeckle told of treating a student with a gunshot through his femoral artery. The student was an Eagle Scout, he said. "He wrapped an electrical cord tight around his leg because he knew he was bleeding to death...