Baltimore doctor is shot and wounded in attempted carjacking during morning drive to hospital

A Baltimore trauma surgeon was raced to his personal ward on Friday after he was shot in an tried carjacking on his option to work.

Dr. Madhu Subramanian, 38, was ambushed by two dark-colored automobiles that attempted to dam him in round 7am on the 1110 block of E. thirty sixth Road in Northeast Baltimore, close to the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard, in response to CBS Baltimore.

Neighbor Menchin Liu informed the outlet that two armed suspects demanded Subramanian get out of his automotive – and when the surgeon drove off, as an alternative, they shot him.

He was rushed to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Middle, the place he works in acute care surgical procedure, trauma surgical procedure, surgical crucial care and burn care, for surgical procedure.

Fortunately, regardless of being shot a number of occasions, Subramanian survived and has since been launched.    

His fellow trauma surgeon, Dr. Joseph Sakran, detailed his shock at seeing his colleague as a critically-injured affected person. He wrote that he initially thought that information of the capturing was an April Idiot’s Day prank.

‘As a Survivor of #GunViolence and a Trauma Surgeon at @hopkinsmedicine, I’ve seen this public well being disaster from quite a few vantage factors,’ he tweeted Friday night. 

‘Regardless of my very own expertise, nothing prepares you when the particular person you need to handle is one in every of your personal… Within the warmth of the second, we regularly compartmentalize the emotion that goes together with caring for these injured sufferers… How do you do this when it’s one in every of your personal?’ 

Trauma surgeon Dr. Madhu Subramanian, 38, was raced to his personal ward at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Middle on Friday after he was shot in an tried carjacking on his option to work

Subramanian was shot a number of occasions round 7 am on the 1110 block of E. thirty sixth Road in Northeast Baltimore, close to the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard (pictured). Responding officers discovered the injured physician close by on the 1200 block of that avenue

Subramanian’s spouse, Erica Hodgman (pictured left), can be employed at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Middle as a pediatric surgeon

Subramanian focuses on acute care surgical procedure, trauma surgical procedure, surgical crucial care and burn care at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Middle, the place he has labored since 2020, in response to the hospital’s web site

Subramanian has labored at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Middle since 2020 alongside his spouse, Erica Hodgman, who’s a pediatric surgeon. 

His hospital has since launched a press release saying they have been glad he had ‘survived this horrific incident’.

‘Dr. Subramanian was not critically injured and has been handled and launched,’ in response to an e-mail despatched by Johns Hopkins Drugs CEO Paul Rothman and Johns Hopkins Well being System President Kevin Sowers to The Baltimore Sun.

‘Sadly, our neighborhood, like so many others across the metropolis, has skilled a troubling improve in crime in latest weeks that impacts us all,’ the e-mail continued. ‘Information like that is understandably upsetting and might provoke concern and nervousness.’

‘We’re so grateful he survived this horrific incident and might be okay,’ Sakran wrote.

Dr. Joseph Sakran, detailed his shock at seeing his colleague as a critically-injured affected person

Sakran, who was practically killed by a stray bullet in highschool, mentioned that gun violence is a ‘public well being challenge’ within the crime-riddled metropolis, writing that ‘we now have the chance and accountability to do higher’

Councilwoman Odette Ramos, whose district contains the Ednor Gardens-Lakeside neighborhood the place Subramanian was shot, mentioned the incident passed off close to Baltimore Metropolis Faculty highschool, the place courses begin at 7.45 am.

‘There have been college students and plenty of individuals out,’ she informed the Solar. ‘It’s actually disturbing.’

The Baltimore Police Division has but to announce a suspect or arrest within the capturing, and couldn’t be reached by DailyMail.com for remark. 

Sakran, who was practically killed by a stray bullet in highschool, mentioned that gun violence is a ‘public well being challenge’ within the crime-riddled metropolis, writing that ‘we now have the chance and accountability to do higher.’

For the previous seven years there was a mean of 1 murder each 30 hours in Baltimore, with town recording greater than 300 homicides annually. 

As of April 2, there have been 72 homicides and 171 capturing incidents within the metropolis, in response to the Baltimore Police Division.

Carjackings are up by 67 %, with 135 carjackings reported thus far this yr in comparison with 81 on the similar time final yr, in response to the Division’s newest crime statistics. Robberies inside the metropolis are up by 20 %, the Solar reported.

Dr. Subramanian (pictured prime middle) was ‘not critically injured and has been handled and launched,’ in response to an e-mail despatched by Johns Hopkins Drugs CEO Paul Rothman and Johns Hopkins Well being System President Kevin Sowers to The Baltimore Solar