Dr. Thomas Coyne

Yeah, unfortunately, gunshot wounds of the torso can take some time for a person to actually lose consciousness.

If the bullet passes through the heart, even then, you're talking about maybe 30 seconds or longer for blood loss to be significant enough to cause that person to lose consciousness.

And so they would have been conscious at that time and probably in fear of their situation.

You know, when we are in a state of shock, sometimes, you know, we're not as conscious of pain.

But nevertheless, they should have been conscious.

And they would have certainly felt the gunshot wounds.

They would have felt the pressure and the pain from the bullet as it entered the body.

And as they're losing blood internally, internal organs, they would have had definitely pain being referred from that area.

Yeah, it's quite possible too.

If the gunshot wound did not hit the spinal column, did not hit any vital structures, he could have certainly attempted to fight back, flee, move from the spot of injury until significant blood loss occurred and he lost consciousness.

It's a surgeon who especially is blood vessels.

So they are the doctors or the surgeons who are called in to repair blood vessels, especially in cases of trauma, or they may be there to help do a bypass graft, let's say, on a person who has blockage from underlying blood vessel disease.

So their specialty will be blood vessels.

And very often they're called in to assist in other surgeries in which blood vessels are damaged or diseased.

A lot.

He would have had four years of medical school, and then he would have had a long surgical residency, sometimes between five and seven years, depending upon any subspecialty fellowships or additional specialized training that he may have had, but a very long, hard course.

Sure.

I mean, think of the, you know, even the athletes, you talk about him being an athlete, how many athletes are amazing on the field, but they're off the field lives and may not be, uh, you know, as stellar and the same thing with surgeons or doctors, you know, they can be very focused when they're doing their job, the task at hand.

But their personal lives may be completely out of control.

And I don't know what area of psychology can speak to that.