Here is an amazing account by Elisabeth Rosenthal and covered last week on the radio show, This American Life. Here is a synopsis and links to the article and radio show:
A
student I know at the Icahn School of Medicine got in touch to say that
a young man with bipolar disorder had been shot in a Houston hospital
room by off-duty police officers moonlighting on the security staff. I
was skeptical.
I’m
a full-time journalist now, but I am also an M.D. Twenty years ago, as a
physician, I worked in a very busy New York City emergency room. I’d
treated patients with mental illness, patients who were high on drugs or
delusional from illness, but I’d never seen weapons of any kind. Tasers and guns in a hospital room?!
...But the tip about the patient shot in Houston was not just hearsay or
rumor: The student who tipped me off was a classmate of Christian Pean,
the older brother of the young man who’d been shot in Texas with both a
gun and a Taser. I got some contacts for the Pean family and began a
sixth-month reporting odyssey. That resulted in a New York Times
article about Alan’s shooting and a companion radio piece and podcast produced by “
This American Life.”
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