Alan Pean- Collective Statement from Healthcare Professionals

The criminal ward at Bellevue Hospital is able to handle far more dangerous patients on a daily basis without the use of tasers or guns. Why can't St. Joeseph's?

My family and I are praying for you, Alan. We are absolutely dismayed and ashamed at the mistreatment you and your family have suffered and pray for justice. There is a lot of love being sent your way. Stay strong.

Prayers going out to you and your family.

Those who work in medicine, whether it's in the development of life saving technologies or their administration, work too hard to foster a culture of safety and rehabilitation to have it ruined like this. My condolences to the Pean family.

Justice for Alan

Very sad to hear about this. Makes me not want to step foot in another hospital.

I am not in the field of Medecine. I am Alan's aunt.

I'm a special Ed teacher of middle school students with emotional disabilities. I get recertified annually on safe, non-violent methods of handling combative, aggressive, students. i.e. Non-Violent Crisis Prevention & Intervention. All public service workers should have this traininf.

I have spent a week in the Neuro ICU caring for my sister. She came in through the emergency room. My family came here to save my sister's life. The surgeons and nurses are all angels performing miraculous work. This place is an institution of hope. I can't even imagine someone getting in the way of the work these heroes do, to take advantage of a weak and sick individual. A hospital is a safe place. Violence is not ever welcome here. My thoughts and prayers are with this patient and his family.

This is a shame Alan is a sweet, and kind young man.

Alan's healthcare team failed him. Doctors and nurses are trained to de-escalate, restrain and sedate patients. Stroke, mental illness, the death of a loved one, drug overdose or adverse effect: the occasions which may rob a patient of his or her faculties are many and varied. And they are anticipated and managed by medical professions. Increasingly, studies show that we fall short in caring for patients of color. Police brutality aside, in this we cannot escape blame.

Primum non nocere.

DO NO HARM If a patient can't be safe when seeking care our system is seriously broken!

Absolutely appalling that this is our current state of affairs in the US. Even more appalling that too many people fail to perceive our massive gun violence as a real health issue.

My heart aches for him and for the family. This should never happen.

Hoping for a full recovery for Sean and a thorough investigation into how to have this kind of tragedy never happen again

My prayers for Alan to make full recovery. There is no room for any kind of violence in a hospital.

Racial violence and police brutality are issues of grave importance to public health and medicine. Sending love and condolences to Alan's family. Together, lets heal this country.

Heart goes out to the family

This behavior is absolutely unacceptable. This patient had mental health issues for which he was rightfully seeking medical care. Every family member should have the right to see him, especially in his time of need for support which this hospital has so unacceptably denied him. Violence is NEVER the answer when a patient is seeking services. It does not matter if the patient is combative or unruly, that does not give us permission to do the same. This is our job, we don't choose our patients or the way we treat them. This is not how the medical profession operates, and we are held at a higher standard when providing care- much higher than demonstrated here. It is our duty as medical professionals to help this man and we have only done the opposite. A disgrace to the profession everywhere.