AdvertisementFor Bronx Hospital Workers, a Sense of Duty Amid Shooting’s ChaosAs doctors and nurses reported to work at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center on Monday for the first time since a horrific shooting there left one doctor dead and six other people injured, hospital staff members began to reconcile their grief with colleagues’ tales of spontaneous heroism . Ms. Peterkin, a registered nurse, comforted the patient, a woman with pneumonia, as shots continued to ring out in the hallway on the 16th floor. Ms. Peterkin turned on the television in the room, and reports of wounded colleagues began to flash on the screen. “This patient cannot breathe.”The patient was turning blue, said Ms. Peterkin, who has worked at the hospital for 25 years. Ms. Brooks got on the phone and was told the news: There was an active shooter on the floors above them.

Source: New York Times July 04, 2017 01:30 UTC