MedPage Today June 6, 2022
Jennifer Henderson

— A doctor and two nurses in California were stabbed by a man seeking care in the ED

Following last Wednesday’s tragic shooting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma hospital, in which a disgruntled patient killed two doctors, a receptionist, and another patient before turning the gun on himself, yet another violent attack on healthcare workers unfolded at a hospital in the Los Angeles area on Friday.

Ashkan Amirsoleymani, 35, was identified as the suspect involved in the latest attack, in which an emergency department physician and two staff nurses were stabbed at Encino Hospital Medical Center, according to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Twitter account. He was booked on three counts of attempted murder, and his bail was set at $3...

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