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‘IT Dr. Dale Carrison got a phone call, threw on his
scrubs and headed to the University Medical
Center (UMC) Trauma Center in Las Vegas,
knowing he was headed into carnage.
WAS It was shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017

when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department called College of Osteopathic
A
Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) alumnus
Carrison, DO ’87, and told him about a mass
shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival in

PURE Las Vegas.
Carrison, a seasoned emergency physician, had
seen 10 to 20 patients come in from a bus accident
before -- but nothing on the scale of the shooting,
which left 59 people dead and hundreds more
MASH
wounded after Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire
on country music concertgoers from his 32nd-
floor Mandalay Bay hotel room.
UNIT’

WesternU alumnus recounts

Trauma Center scene

following Las Vegas shooting

By Jeff Malet
Photos courtesy Las Vegas Review-Journal

WesternU alum Dale Carrison, DO ’87, chief of staff and
chair of emergency medicine at University Medical Center
in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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