Four months after 14 of her classmates and three school employees were shot to death, Kyra Parrow walked across a stage and was handed a diploma. What she was not given, she says, was a road map to navigate her lingering trauma. Right after graduation, Parrow, who was a high school senior at the time […]
A horrendous truth about our world right now is that there will likely be another news story about a horrific mass shooting. It’s not hard to feel personally affected by something so devastating, regardless of your own involvement. In fact, it may be out of your control: So-called vicarious trauma can be a biological response […]
Less than two weeks after the National Rifle Association launched an attack on “self-important anti-gun doctors,” a mass shooting at a Chicago hospital left at least four people dead. Emergency room doctor Tamara O’Neal, 38, and pharmaceutical assistant Dayna Less, 25, were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman following a domestic dispute at the Mercy Hospital & Medical Center […]
Tamera Mowry-Housley and husband Adam Housley’s niece Alaina died in the shooting at a college bar in Thousand Oaks, California. She was 18. “Our hearts are broken. We just learned that our niece Alaina was one of the victims of last night’s shooting at Borderline bar in Thousand Oaks,” the Real host and former Fox News correspondent tell […]
A Jewish nurse is speaking up about his experience treating Pittsburgh shooting suspect Robert Bowers. Ari Mahler, a registered nurse at Allegheny General Hospital’s emergency department wrote in a Facebook post that he chose to treat the suspect with empathy and compassion ― even though Mahler said he was initially worried that his parents could […]