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"The day I realized something was wrong, I was playing basketball and I felt a sharp pain in my lower back," said Marco Fermin.
After a tourist boat exploded beneath Stefanie Schaffer’s seat, mangling her legs, she lay in a hospital bed wondering whether she would ever walk again.
"We are so busy. We do not necessarily have to do practice drills for mass shooting," said Ryder Trauma Center's Medical Director Dr. Nicholas Namias.
Diana Colon’s 16-year-old son Daniel Brett took his own life in March of 2011 after suffering repeated hits to the head from playing football. But she said she didn’t know anything was wrong at the time, until he started experiencing symptoms
Chief neurosurgeon for the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Christopher Roberts, DO, was in charge of triage as patients arrived at the hospital after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, according to News-Press. This is the second mass shooting Dr. Roberts has responded to in 13 months.
Dr. Christopher Roberts, Chief Neurosurgeon for the Broward Health Medical Center had also treated patients from the Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting in 2017.
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