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AUGUST 5, 2022

Tulsa Shooting Intensifies Concerns About Violence Against Healthcare Workers

Originally published by our sister publication General Surgery News

By Christina Frangou

A multiple shooting in a medical building in Tulsa, Okla., has shocked and devastated the medical community and intensified concerns about rising rates of violence against healthcare workers.

In June, an orthopedic surgeon, a sports medicine physician, a clinic supervisor and the spouse of a patient were killed, shot by a man who blamed his surgeon for pain following back surgery two weeks earlier.

“We,