Hennepin Healthcare physicians are speaking out about the rise in gun violence in Minneapolis

This summer alone, 91 people have been shot and 18 killed.

That includes the three killed and six injured in Wednesday's mass shooting at Shoreline Plaza near Loring Park, where a 35-year old man, Carlton Johnson, opened fire with a handgun before being shot and killed by Minneapolis Police Officers. Two MPD officers were struck, but are expected to recover.

It's a scene that's becoming all too familiar and frustrating, especially after last year's mass shooting at Annunciation Church. Many victims from those incidents end up at the state's premier level one trauma center, HCMC.

"Almost a year ago, almost to the day, I stood up here and I talked about the horror of what happened at the shooting at Annunciation," said Hennepin EMS Doctor Dr. Tim Kummer. "I talked about the toll gun violence takes on healthcare providers, and I asked that something be done about it. And yet here again, I was there on Wednesday night on scene and then at the hospital."

The effect this is having on physicians is enormous," says Dr. Mitch Radin.

"I've seen a single shooting leave a deep and lasting mark on a first year resident, and on a nurse with 25 years of experience in the very same night," says Radin who is a Psychology Supervisor with Hennepin Healthcare. "For others, the impact accumulates more slowly. One difficult scene after another until what was pushed aside to keep working begins to show up at home, in a marriage, with their children, or in the gradual erosion of health and relationships."

Dr. Kummer was rather blunt when asked if he's doing okay after this latest incident.

"They're not okay because of what they see day in and day out," Kummer adds. "Mitch, he's phenomenal, I can't thank this guy enough, but we're not okay. I'm not okay. None of us are okay."