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Article snippet: Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam was making her rounds at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center on Friday morning when she walked into a 16th-floor examination room to ask after an older patient. Mary Darko, a nurse who was tending to the patient at the time, said Dr. Tam had been as friendly as ever. Several hours later, Ms. Darko heard something slam. “Go and hide! Go and hide!” a doctor screamed. Ms. Darko hid in a bathroom. When she came out, a bustling Bronx hospital had been turned into a corridor of horrors. And Dr. Tam had been fatally shot in the chest, killed by a disgruntled doctor armed with an AM-15 rifle who struck seven people before using the weapon to end his own life. The rampage set the hospital on a frantic race to treat its own, even as the gunman continued to pump bullets into crowded hallways. A medical student who was shot in the head sustained a grievous brain injury. Another bullet bored into the liver of a second-year resident in family medicine. There were more gunshot wounds, all of them severe — to a gastrointestinal fellow’s hand, a medical student’s abdomen and a medical resident’s neck. With gunfire thundering through the hospital, doctors dragged their colleagues and patients out of harm’s way and put them on elevators. “Wherever the doctors found them, they grabbed them, took them out,” Dr. Sridhar Chilimuri, Bronx-Lebanon’s physician in chief, said on Saturday. “The active shooting was still happening while we had them in the operating room. It’s... Link to the full article to read more