Health care upended

During my career as a writer and marketer, I worked in Marketing Departments at hospitals in Arizona and Texas.

One enduring memory is 9/11 (September 11, 2001). On that day I drafted signs posted at hospital entrances alerting visitors that because of the day’s events, security guards might be asking everyone for identification as they came into the hospital.

Today, medical and hospital workers and others - including visitors - are dealing with a new threat: internal violence. Five people died in a shooting at a Tulsa, Oklahoma medical building on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Deadly assaults are on the rise.

Healthcare leaders from organizations including the American Hospital Association and American Medical Association are urging legislators to act on gun violence in the wake of this recent shooting.

I hear them. I’m with them.