Speaking of guns and such, we had a patient threatening to bring a gun into our pharmacy and Director's Office if he did not get his pain meds hand delivered to his house today.

He left 10 voicemail messages on my phone and called several others around the hospital.

One of the calls he talked about suicide also, which gave us a reason to call the Portland police and ask them to do a welfare check, just to make sure he was not serious about that. Hard to know who is serious with those threats and who is not and on a day like today, following two other shootings at schools in the past week you just worry. Our VA Police were, of course, alerted and also had a chat with him. There was only one voice message left after the Portland police went out and that was just to let us know "the police can't do anything if I'm not suicidal."