Prisons are dangerous places.

Sometimes inmates and staff are stabbed by other inmates.

After a particularly brutal round of gang fights and stabbings, the ER doctor called me.

He began by berating me and the fact 8 inmates had been stabbed in two weeks at the prison.

He said he was writing a report to the Secretary Department of Corrections about it.

I advised the doctor that we report via telephone and in writing each stabbing as well as other assaults within 24 hrs.

I then asked him if he knew that the major cause of death in the US was from medical malpractice? He got very quiet. I then advised him that none of my inmates died. I asked him how many of his patients died.

He hung up. I never heard from him again.

The Secretary called me the next day telling me that the doctor had called him.

The Secretary had a lot to say to that doctor about not practicing law enforcement and we would not practice medicine.