L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities
Monday, February 4, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
The intent is to make them more appealing to patients under the healthcare overhaul. But victims of past violence at hospitals are among many who oppose the change.It was typically chaotic in the emergency room at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center that February day in 1993. Richard May was treating patients in the triage area when a disgruntled man started ranting about the long wait. Then, without warning, the man pulled a gun and started shooting, hitting May in the head, chest and arm and seriously wounding two other doctors.