A topic that has gotten a lot of attention appropriately so and probably not enough attention

from a lot of sources, including other podcasters and journalists and people blogging

within the health care field is the topic of health care violence. And I don't think enough can be said about this. It's

very disturbing. I think to anybody that works within health care, but really should be disturbing

to everybody as these are the people trying to help other people lives get better and as result many lives of people that work

within health care are absolutely destroyed by the violence that happens to them and I don't want to

get today too into broad comments about the topic of health care violence other than to say

a few things that apply to the case I do want to talk about that may be applied more generally.

And so the case I want to talk about happened two years ago here in Colorado Springs and it was an incredibly tragic day

and it still goes on because to this day the man who wounded nine people with a gun an an assault weapon, and then killed three people that day,

one of whom was a police officer here in Caldra Springs, has still not been held accountable.

And this terrorism, which goes on, but really was incredibly awful the day that it occurred when it was a freezing snowy day here in Colorado.

And this guy held our city resources such as our police officers and rescue teams and EMTs

and all kinds of people including the hostages and people that couldn't move around the city

at bay for five hours, more than five hours actually.

And it was 15 degrees outside. So try and imagine that, that you're a SWAT team member,

and you're outside literally with your rifle pointed for this mass killer, this terrorist, for over five and a half hours,

where your hand is completely numb from the cold for, you know, over the past five hours.

It's incredible to think about what some of these heroes did in Colorado Springs. And this is a town that truly

has a lot of heroes, if you know anything about Colorado Springs. In this guy who lived in Hartzell,

Colorado, which is a little over an hour outside of Colorado, it's up in the mountains. He wasn't from Colorado.

He spent his life in North and South Carolina

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