Austin police are nonetheless attempting to work out how and why this tragedy occurred, however tributes have poured in during the last 24 hours concerning the unbelievable individual and physician that Dr. Dodson was.
Leslie Chunta, who lives in Austin and had two kids underneath Dr. Dodson’s care, mentioned that she all the time went the additional mile in caring for her youngsters, even just lately following up months after a check-up to share new data that would assist her son.
“On New Yr’s Eve day, she gave me a name and talked about that she had achieved some further coaching and considered my son, and he or she went out of her method to name me and ask me how my son is doing, and ask me how I used to be doing,” she instructed Fox Information. “We had been actually struggling so it was sort of a breath of recent air to listen to from her. It began us on a path to assist get my son some sources to assist make his life higher, make our lives higher as a household. With out her outreach, with out her assist, my son would not have had an advocate.”
The household of Dr. Katherine Lindley Dodson, who was killed in a murder-suicide Tuesday, shared this photograph.
(Household of Dr. Katherine Lindley Dodson)
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It wasn’t simply Dr. Dodson’s work ethic and take care of her sufferers although, as Chunta mentioned Dr. Dodson all the time radiated “positivity and love and happiness.”
“My son likes to go see her. A few of the issues that he is been engaged on, he was actually excited to go inform her,” Chunta mentioned. “I do not understand how I will inform my son that we’re not going to have the ability to see her.”
Laura Whittaker, whose son has been in Dr. Dodson’s care since final January, mentioned that from day one, “not solely did she make us really feel like all the things was going to be okay, however she was the sort of physician who made you are feeling like she was actually in it with you.”
“It has been fascinating to see how he reacts and develops with completely different folks over time,” Whittaker instructed Fox Information. “We noticed her two weeks in the past for his 12-month checkup, and I had the sense that he remembered her even simply from seeing her each few months as an toddler.”
Daniel Abernathy shared this photograph of his son being handled by Dr. Dodson.
(Twitter / Daniel Abernathy @dabernathy89)
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Karen Vladeck, whose two youngsters had been underneath Dr. Dodson’s care, tweeted that Dr. Dodson “made you are feeling like your kid’s sickness was the one one which mattered in that second, though you knew there was a line of different youngsters and fogeys ready anxiously to see her.”
“She lived simply across the nook from us and I’d usually see her working round taking her 3 kids to numerous actions or the park,” Vladeck wrote. “Regardless that she had 100s of sufferers, she would all the time ask ‘How is Syd’s ear? How is Maddie feeling after that vaccine?'”
Dr. Dodson is survived by her three kids and her husband. Her household mentioned in an announcement Wednesday that they “are past devastated on the tragic, sudden and mindless lack of our beloved Lindley.”
“As a devoted mother, spouse, daughter, good friend and pediatrician, she radiated mild, love and pleasure in all the things she did and with everybody she touched. She developed rapid rapport together with her sufferers and had the distinctive capacity to make you are feeling like the one individual within the room,” her household mentioned. “We’re so grateful for the outpouring of affection and concern however because of the ongoing nature of this investigation and our request for privateness throughout this terrible time, we could have no additional remark.”
Dr. Katherine Lindley Dodson is survived by her husband and three kids.
(Nick Higman)
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Police mentioned tragedy struck Kids’s Medical Group round 4:30 p.m. Tuesday when Dr. Bharat Narumanchi, who had simply acquired a most cancers analysis and was given “weeks to dwell,” entered the power with a pistol, a shotgun, and two duffel baggage.
Dr. Narumanchi took 5 hostages initially, however 4 both escaped or had been let go. Negotiators spent hours attempting to speak with Dr. Narumanchi by way of a bullhorn till a SWAT staff found the our bodies of each Dr. Narumanchi and Dr. Dodson late Tuesday evening.
Dr. Dodson acquired her BA in chemistry from Washington & Lee College in 1999, then acquired her Physician of Medication from Louisiana State College Faculty of Medication in New Orleans in 2003, in line with her LinkedIn.
After graduating, she labored as a pediatric resident at Vanderbilt College Medical Middle, as a medical college teacher at Harvard Medical Faculty, and as an pressing care doctor at Boston Kids’s Hospital.
She labored as a pediatric hospitalist for a decade at Seton Well being Care Household, which is a part of Dell Kids’s Medical Middle.
“Yesterday night we acquired the tragic information that one in all our former Dell Kids’s hospitalists, Dr. Lindley Dodson, was killed final evening. We’re shocked and saddened by this information, and our ideas and prayers are with Dr. Dodson’s household, pals and colleagues,” a spokesperson for Dell Kids’s Medical Middle instructed Fox Information in an announcement. “Dr. Dodson was a hard-working and compassionate supplier who can be significantly missed.”
Paul Greatest is a reporter for FOX Enterprise and Fox Information. Comply with him on twitter at @KincaidBest.
