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With the exceptions of oversized atriums anything in a hospital is necessarily going to be CQB. Between that and the fact that incidents of violence are either totally unforeseen (or missed, anyway) or planned in advance....not likely to help. Most city hospitals will have some armed police onsite in some capacity and they have strict rules about what weaponry where.
Ultimately we are trained and "required" to accept being victimized instead of defending ourselves, this isn't always the wrongest thing in the world - delirious granny, well it's not her fault I'm not going to shoot her.
Incidents like the banger with a gun are rare, and almost always we have a damn large team and a million people in earshot, that lowers the risks.
Hospital policy is almost always going to ban people from bringing their own weapons but you definitely run into people who ignore that. It has been on occasion comical, some people will have capped syringes in their purse "just in case."
Coming to work armed is going to be more common in outpatient - you are more likely to be alone or semi alone, in the hospital someone can always hear you scream.
Sometimes that person is another patient - the second patient in the wrestling anecdote was actually helping restrain the stabber.
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