from the coast guard in january after serving 4 1/2 years with the service. patterson s mother, a nurse, tells the associated press she had tried to get the v.a. to prescribe her son at van for depression and anxiety. his doctors gave him a different medication. she says those families, they are hurting because they wouldn t give my son his damn ativan. he had a mental break because they wouldn t listen to me. the v.a. says patient confidentiality prevents officials from commenting on his individual treatment. however, v.a. officials tell the a.p. they re horrified and saddened to hear about the active shooter situation here in atlanta. bill: this 39-year-old woman who is dead, did she work at that hospital? the woman who was killed was actually an employee with the
care of it, so it s still an invasive procedure. it s usually done under anesthesia, but it is in a different area of the hospital, not in the main operating room. can you repeat the condition of the four people that you brought in? sure. so we had four people brought in by ems. of those one is still in the operating room, probably the the m most seriously injured, another patient just got out of the operating room and is doing well. we had a third patient who had a procedure in interventional radiology, and they will have to have additional procedures to follow up, and then the final patient is still in the trauma center probably does not require surgery and is doing well. were they shot multiple times? well, i don t know how many times each one was shot. really because of patient confidentiality, i don t want to
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