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November 16th, 2009

Dr. Stephen Wolf Arrested For the Murder of His Son, Tommy

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Dr. Stephen Wolf (i.cdn.turner.com)

Dr. Stephen Wolf, a Nichols Hills physicians has been arrested for the murdering of his 9-year-old son and wounding his wife, Mary Wolf.

Several 911 calls were made around 4 a.m. from a neighbor who overheard an altercation between the Wolfs in their son’s room. Tommy Wolf was pronounced dead when authorities arrived shortly after. They disarmed Stephen Wolf, who was holding a knife. Mary Wolf suffered non-life-threatening wounds to her hands and mouth, trying to protect her son.

Tommy Wolf (tulsaworld.com)

According to Vitals.com, Dr. Stephen Wolf is an Internist in Oklahoma City, OK. He completed his medical degree at University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

“”We are trying to put all the facts together,” Police Chief Richard Mask said. The boy’s death, he said, had had a “devastating” effect on Nichols Hills, a small town about 15 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. “It’s had a huge impact,” he said.”

“I can’t perceive it happening anywhere anytime but it does and Nichols Hills is not that much different from any other community,” Mask said. “I know that sounds strange, but people are people and everyone has their problems.”

Dr. Ordon of The Doctors Started Surgical Friends Foundation Tackling Life-Threatening Cases

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Dr. Andrew Ordon

Dr. Andrew Ordon, the star on CBS’s hit daytime show, The Doctors. He is referred to as “the governor of plastic surgery” and “plastic surgeon to the stars”. Dr. Ordon is teaming up with renowned plastic surgeons Dr. Kami Parsa and Dr. Jay Calvert to form a new foundation, Surgical Friends Foundation. The trio joined together to combat the most difficult, and often life-threatening, reconstructive cases of individuals in need and without health insurance.

The mission of Surgical Friends Foundation is to unite philanthropists, reconstructive surgeons, and patients in need of surgery but without the financial resources. As plastic surgeons with sub-specialty expertise, they are well-suited to perform these life-altering surgeries. Most of the foundation’s patients have physical deformities that are congenital, post-traumatic or acquired in nature.

Their first mission will be to Cambodia where they will handle a full slate of pediatric cases - all children who have been victims of land mines, as a result of decades of civil war. After 20 years of war, one out of every 290 Cambodians is living with a deformity as a direct result of the numerous land mines plaguing their landscape. This is one of the highest ratios in the world

For more information on the Surgical Friends Foundation and to view a video of a recent case surgery, visit www.surgicalfriends.org.

The Doctors (fox61.com)

Dr. Andrew P. Ordon, M.D is a surgeon in the area of aesthetic plastic and reconstructive surgery with a private practice in Beverly Hills and Rancho Mirage. Dr. Ordon is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California where he earned his under-graduate degree with Honors in Biological Sciences. He then received his medical degree from USC School of Medicine with Honors in Medicine.

Dr. Ordon in His Own Words: For decades I have been privileged to help rebuild and enhance the lives of many individuals. I bring a unique combination of training, experience, and quality of care to all of my patients. I have a commitment to enhancing an individual’s natural beauty through using the latest techniques in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Our relationship begins with trust and ends with the successful completion of natural rejuvenation or reconstruction

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Posted in Celebrity Doctors, Doctors In The Media, Healing Power. Tags: Dr. Andrew Ordon, Dr. Drew Ordon on the Doctors, Dr. Kami Parsa and Dr. Jay Calvert, Surgical Friends Foundation.

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November 9th, 2009

Vitals Daily Update: Dr. Gary Kitching, Dr. Allyson Augusta Marries Dr. Gautam Shrikhande, Most Suicides at Fort Hood, TX

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Dr. Gary Kitching, a Radiologist from Santa Ana, CA was killed at a bar in Vail, CO by a local Vietnam Veteran.

“A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what authorities say was an apparently random shooting.

Longtime Vail resident Richard Moreau is accused of firing several shots outside and inside the Sandbar Sports Grill in the ski-resort town. He was arrested Saturday on suspicion of first-degree homicide and is to appear in court today.”

Dr. Allyson Augusta and Dr. Gautam Shrikhande

Dr. Allyson Augusta and Dr. Gautam Shrikhande got married Saturday, in Plymouth, Mass.

“Allyson and Gautam met when they were both working in a trauma unit at a Boston hospital. She knew he was special when he could make her laugh even at 5:30 in the morning after an all-night shift.”

Fort Hood, TX has become known as a temporary military base before and after deploying soldiers to Iraq or Afghanistan. They have also become associated with having the highest number of suicides among all military bases since the start of the war in Iraq in 2003.

Major Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 and wounded 29, is now awake from his coma and talking. He is only one case among hundreds of victims who fall victim to the overpowering stress of being sent to war.

Fort Hood, TX

“After many years of lengthy war zone rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Army personnel are experiencing record rates of suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health problems, as well as worsening alcohol and drug abuse.

Nationwide, 117 active-duty soldiers have killed themselves this year—up from 103 last year.”

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Posted in Doctors In The Media, Front Page News, Medical Research, Untimely Deaths. Tags: Dr. Allyson Augusta and Dr. Gautam Shrikhande, Dr. Gary Kitching, Dr. Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, Iraq and Afghanistan, Major Nidal Hasan, Richard Moreau, Sandbar Sports Grill Vail Colorado, TX.

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November 6th, 2009

Fort Hood Shooter, Nidal Hasan Fell Victim to Extreme Form of PTSD

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Major Nidal Hasan (cbsnew.com/ap)

Major Nidal Hasan never favored going to the firing range, so why did he open fire on his fellow soldiers?

According to this family, Dr. Hasan, Alumni of Virginia Tech, wanted to get out of the Army because he was constantly harassed and called by racial slurs such as “camel jockey.” Despite his high rank and medical achievements, he had a difficult time enduring the stress of dealing with his colleagues.

Why couldn’t he pull rank on those that spoke to him in a derogatory manner?

However, Dr. Nidal Hasan also suffered from stress of getting orders of deployment to Iraq. The same sort of stress that he counseled other soldiers on that were being deployed to and from the war zone in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry specialist, he had opportunities of speaking with other specialists like himself. Instead he chose to fall victim to his own destructive nature of being a suicide killer.

“Just keep in mind mass killers pretty much know they want to die and they tend to take as many people with them as they can in a shooting,” said former FBI agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett, who also believes Hasan didn’t want to survive the Ft. Hood shooting.

“It is one of those things where he went and wanted to kill a lot of people and commit suicide maybe in his own mind that he’s saving peoples’ lives,” said Garrett. “As illogical as that sounds, in his mind, that would be quite logical.”

After killing 13 soldiers and wounding a dozen others, Major Nidal Hasan is now stable after being taken down by a female civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley.

Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan Went On a Wild Shooting Rampage in Fort Hood

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According to Vitals.com, Dr Nidal Hasan specializes in Psychiatry & Neurology. His medical school was the Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine. He was recently promoted to major this past May.

Dr. Nidal Hasan went on a wild shooting rampage in Fort Hood killing and wounding many. It is striking to note that Dr. Hasan just completed his fellowship at USUHS for Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry.

Dr. Nidal Hasan (nytimes.com/CSTS website)

Update: Vitals.com just checked the ratings logs and the below comment came in at 5:30pm EST, while the shooting was at 4:30pm EST and we suspect this comment by Pvt J. Hammond maybe fictitious. Thanks to our readers for pointing out the impossibilities of his comments.

The following comment was written earlier today on Vitals.com by someone calling himself Pvt J. Hammond.

“Although he was hard to understand (strong accent) this doctor helped me come to terms with my conscientious objector status.While I am still not thrilled about being deployed to Iraq, I at least understand how doing so to protect my fellow soldiers is a good thing.”

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Posted in Doctors In The Media, Front Page News, Untimely Deaths. Tags: CSTS, Dr. Nidal Hasan, Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Fort Hood shootings, Nidal Hasan, psychiatrist on a rampage, Pvt J. Hammond, USUHS.

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Archive for the ‘Doctors In The Media’ Category

Dr. Stephen Wolf Arrested For the Murder of His Son, Tommy

Dr. Ordon of The Doctors Started Surgical Friends Foundation Tackling Life-Threatening Cases

Vitals Daily Update: Dr. Gary Kitching, Dr. Allyson Augusta Marries Dr. Gautam Shrikhande, Most Suicides at Fort Hood, TX

Fort Hood Shooter, Nidal Hasan Fell Victim to Extreme Form of PTSD

Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan Went On a Wild Shooting Rampage in Fort Hood

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