LAS VEGAS – An official at a suburban Las Vegas hospital says some of the people injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history didn’t initially realize they had been shot.
Dr. Sean Dort is a trauma surgeon and the trauma centre medical director at the Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Hospital’s Siena campus in Henderson.
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He says some people called from home to ask for their bullets to be removed. He says others first went to their family doctors before being directed to the Henderson hospital.
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Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 500 were injured Sunday night when a gunman perched in a hotel casino tower opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, an outdoor country music festival.
Those injured have landed in 13 hospitals scattered across southern Nevada.
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