Midland TX Shooting Hoax-We knew Something was Coming

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Music Music Music Music Music Music Our pastoral has gone through the same thing as our community is going through. The first thing that Mr. Purchase's mouth were, right? What is going on with these people? What's wrong with these people? Well, I heard about it. Actually, I was going to go to the movies today. And I heard about it and I said, you know, the phone rang immediately. He found out about it and he said, Bruce, where are you? What are you doing? The main thing is to make things easier for them, the transition of losing a loved one. Because it's going to be a new life because that individual is going to be gone out of their lives. And that's what we do. And we help and assist in the celebration of that individual's life. Actually, our director told me, prepare for this weekend. It's going to be something hard. We're going to go through something and I prepared. What did you say? Actually, our director told me, prepare for this weekend. It's going to be something hard. We're going to go through something and I prepared. I was ready with my phone. I was ready with everything. My staff is ready to go. And I didn't know something was coming. I don't know Chris. I don't know why he wanted this, but we're not having a father's wishes. I'm going to miss my daddy. I saw ECISD bus going down 191. Are you guys using the school transportation to help the big dams, or anything like that? I'm not tomorrow. I don't have an ever say that I'll do nothing. Oh my girl, how long it gets you every time? I'll be keeping track now. Watch out for the snakes. This is Matt. He's our chief operations officer. Matt's here. This is Dr. Bowes, one of our trauma doctors. I'm going to turn over to Dr. Bowes just for a second just to talk about gunshot victims and what things like that are. I'll let him speak to it in just a minute. We'll come back to me then to Matt for any follow up questions. I'll hand it over to Dr. Bowes here for just a second. So first of all, our thoughts are with the families. And when a situation like this happens, it's actions that come together from preparation years in advance. So over the last several years, we've formed committees where we've coordinated the many elements that will be necessary here. Police, sheriff, school departments, Odessa Fire and Rescue, the medical director, the emergency room and other parties that are involved. Here, when everyone arrived, it was well orchestrated. We received 13 patients. And because of this preparation, we were able to call in our backups, anesthesiologists, operating room staff. Tax nurses. This is a great team effort for everybody when the patients arrived. After they arrived, we were able to do the initial stabilizing maneuvers on everyone. And the emphasis I would give here, and I think a take home point, especially for the national viewers, is I encourage everyone in every community, no matter what size. If you're in the middle of the desert, you're in an urban area to prepare in advance. You realize how stupid you sound. Unfortunately, it may not be a matter of if it may be a matter of when, and for us, this preparation really helped us today. Want to know something? I'm a bad doctor. I'm not boasting. I mean, who would? Just stating a fact, I've never really gotten the hang of the whole healing the sick thing. And don't interpret this as some sort of false modesty, please, it's not. It's not like I'm weak and some areas, no. I'm homogenously unqualified to practice medicine in any capacity. I really don't have a clue. And another thing I'd mention is whenever there is something on the national scale like this, it starts as a local response. It starts right there at the community. It starts with knowing how to stop bleeding. It starts with how to do BLS and chest compressions. And this is something that we as Americans can do. And we're encouraging this in the middle of Odessa community. And we really encourage this at Medical Center Hospital. And you guys out there, wherever you're watching nationwide, you can make a huge difference for people. Because when they arrive here, the response can stay local. Because if you practice this, you don't need to call in the state. You don't need to call the governor. You don't need to activate FEMA and national resources. So we can do this. We can come together. And I think our community here has shown how we can do that. And I think our families are going to come together and we're going to become stronger from this. Do you realize how stupid you sound? Did starting getting the call that this was happening, what as a doctor, what went through your mind at the first? First, I would emphasize that this is not about the doctor. It's not about us. It's about the family. But myself personally, I'm an Iraq war veteran. I served 12 years in the military and served in the second battle of fluja and Baghdad. And this is something that unfortunately, I'm very experienced at mass casualty situations. And this is what led us to form the preparation process with hundreds and hundreds of people that you are not. And this is what led us to form the preparation process. I think the telemetry is now what I just said. You've been so focused on me. Damn, I think you forgot about you. Feel like the gold I'm surrounded by sheep. Damn, you've been busy with the gold. So as far as for the public out there, the message for them, I think what they can do to help you know, I think it's not about the public. I think it's not about the public. I think it's about the public. I think it's about the public. I think it's about the public. As far as for the public out there, the message for them, I think what they can do to help, you know, we always say thoughts and prayers. That's great. But go out there, take a BLS class. Go out there, learn about how to stop bleeding. Go out there and practice safety. Don't text and drive. Don't do things where you put yourself in others' endanger. And this is something that we can do as a nation to help here. What's there anything based on either possibly weapon that may have been used for ammunition? They were used that made this worse and maybe a typical gunshot wound or anything else? So typically I can reliably comment on what's happening in the walls of the emergency room. So it'd be speculation about what is going on on the streets and what streets are closed and what weapons were used. I don't want to say the wrong information. I've got one more for you. So going back to that preparation, you know, you as a doctor, is there anything specific that you guys prepared that was super beneficial in the position of a doctor? These things don't just happen. You have to prepare. So everything from who comes in to where family members go, to how to keep ourselves safe, how to prevent wrong messages going out to the media, how to keep the calm and do this in a calm situation. This doesn't happen by accident. This takes years of preparation and I encourage every community to do this. This is not an urban community here, but this happened here. And this can happen anywhere across America. And I think what I personally took from this is a team here in West Texas, in the deserts of West Texas, was maximally prepared at this trauma center to take care of everyone. And I don't think this is beyond us. Anybody can do this. Confucius, I do not think this story had much fall at the day. I don't think we're going to use that one.