Vitals Spotlight - We Give the Doctor an Exam

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.”