I think I need to put Gawker and Jezebel and all media on blackout until this shooting coverage is OVER.

I see. So when Nancy Lanza didn't immediately realize her son would steal guns and start shooting up schools, she's at fault because she didn't hate her kid enough to get him arrested or committed for life.

Yes, it's all the mother's fault. If only she loved him enough, his mental illness would go away. If only she accepted stabbings as her due, her tribute for her immense love for him, love would save the day where medications, government, doctors, treatments, and social supports fail.

Remember when all those politicians said, "Now is not the time to talk about gun control", and we said, "NO, NOW IS EXACTLY THE TIME."

Exactly. It's akin to the politicians saying, "Now is not the time to talk about gun control". Except this article says, "Now is not the time to talk about mental illness treatments."

Right. The father that abandoned his mentally ill child who was unstable and left him to the care of someone who you believe is completely horrible is completely absent of blame. No matter that he started a new life somewhere else and had nothing to do with his kid.

That BBC is so mean! Posting news stories of pranks gone wrong! How disrespectful!

I saw that. And the one where it's obviously the mother's fault because she didn't spank him. And the one where it's because we let single mothers raise children. And the fifty other ones that talk about letting mentally ill people die and not socialize with the normals.

I can't say I'm shocked, but now everyone has SOMEONE in their life who they "just know" are going to snap and probably shoot up a maternity ward or something.

I'm so sick of this from Jezebel and Gawker.

Then train your nurses to give compassionate constructive advice to anyone who answers the phone. Get a name and number of the relative, bring to the patient for approval or the closest kin at the hospital, and ask for permission to call back. Get the names and a password from ant relative who visits. Call the…

Well said. It's not like some dude popped up out of nowhere, obtained a gun, and bam! Instant shootout.

Yes. On the scale of nurse responses on the phone, we apparently only have two:

Every time someone leaves a very detailed, glowing review, I think they're plants.

Well, then you're breaking the law. The law is there for a reason. It's sad that you see no value in it. And how hard is it, really, to have the patient identify family members that can call for updates along with a safeword over the phone? I mean, is laziness also valued in your staff who "care directly for…

Please. It's not like this guy woke up in a vacuum, grabbed a gun, ran to his local elementary school, and started shooting.

Not informative at all. Speculative and cautionary with no real evidence or facts.

You know, too soon. It's really not funny to joke like this.

I take compliance very seriously, and so should you. This is actually my job, and 94% of hospitals ARE negligent in this job. It's just facts, and yes, we should require basic information identifying you as kin before releasing your private health information. Whether or not you agree with that is up to you, but…

Yes, because as many nurses have said, you know not to connect random callers to the room with someone who doesn't know the room number, let alone a celebrity