Metropolitan Hospital Center

Now, as well as the citywide emergency, there was an emergency within my own precinct.

The communications bureau dispatched sector cars 3 and 4 to the scene of the shooting and sent an ambulance from Metropolitan Hospital.

Sergeant Klein on TS, as he was required in such cases, notified the 21st Detective Squad.

He was told that Lieutenant Matt King, commander of the 21st Squad, was on patrol with two detectives and had undoubtedly responded to the radio signal.

I was in the bowels of medicine.

And then from there, I went on to Metropolitan Hospital, another New York City landmark through New York Medical College.

And I became the director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department, where that was my basis for about 20 years.

I was a pediatric emergency physician.