Dr. Madhu Subramanian, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and an assistant professor of surgery, was on his way to work around 7 a.m. m. City police said they found an.
During his morning commute on Friday, a doctor in Baltimore was wounded during an attempted carjacking, according to local sources.
On his way to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center at 7 a.m., Dr. Madhu Subramanian, a 38-year-old surgeon and an assistant professor of surgery, was hit by a truck and killed.
A few minutes later, Baltimore City police discovered a male with injuries on the 1200 block of East 36th Street in Northeast Baltimore.
According to the hospital’s website, Subramanian is an acute care surgeon with expertise in trauma surgery, surgical critical care, burn care, and general surgery.
In an email to workers that was acquired by the Baltimore Sun, Johns Hopkins officials claimed that Subramanian had already been discharged.
“With his permission, we can share that Dr. Madhu Subramanian, a trauma and acute care surgeon, was on his way to work at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center when the incident occurred near the 3600 block of Loch Raven Boulevard,” Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Paul Rothman and Johns Hopkins Health System President Kevin Sowers wrote, according to the paper. “Thankfully, Dr. Subramanian was not seriously injured and has been treated and released.”
Violence in large American cities is on the rise, with robberies, shootings, and homicides all on the rise in Baltimore and other major American cities. Another incident occurred on Friday, with two guys, ages 19 and 20, suffering gunshot wounds, police said. Neither of their injuries was considered life-threatening, according to the law enforcement officials.
In a series of tweets on Friday, Dr. Joseph Sakran, a fellow Johns Hopkins surgeon, addressed the shooting of his colleague Dr. Subramanian.
“We are so grateful he survived this horrific incident and will be OK,” he wrote.
“In the heat of the moment, we often compartmentalize the emotion that goes along with caring for these injured patients. And we do that in order to effectively make one methodical decision after the other to save a person’s life. How do you do that when it’s one of your own?”
Sakran, who survived a shooting himself as a teenager, added that “Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis that we face daily in Baltimore, and communities all across America” and called on society to “do better.”
Anyone with information on the shooting was asked to contact Baltimore detectives at (410) 396-2444.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.