Someone smashed the glass doors of the clinic last night.

came in through a dog boarding area and managed to let loose some dogs. I never heard whether they found them all safely, but that about broke my heart.

I'm told most medical and dental clinics have likewise upped security after these episodes. I've seen some house practice veterinary vans now sporting signs that they carry no controlled drugs on board (which I doubt is really true, but I can imagine the need to say that).

Seems a real problem in Denver, but I've heard reports up the front range to Fort Collins as well. sigh....

We do actually have some, but they're locked away in the crash cart.

It just adds so much subliminal tension to time spent there. That's what I have experienced after a vandalized workplace.

That's scary. I worry about our clinic getting robbed. Even though most copays are paid by plastic, we still take in cash. It's a big place and we do have a guard on duty, as well as cameras absolutely everywhere, but so do banks and they get hit all the time.

What sort of trouble did they do?

Very little of that occurs around here in Sheboygan, but a few months ago a guy went into our local library's public bathroom, OD'd and died.

I had used that same bathroom only a couple days earlier.

We try to get them into treatment, but not everyone will consent to it.

People will come in to take a shower at our facility, but if they act up and cause trouble, they get thrown out, or simply denied shower privileges. It can make for some angry confrontations...