A man entered Johns Hopkins Hospital with a gun and is believed to have fatally shot himself inside an emergency room bathroom. The incident occured days after the medical center held a national symposium on safety inside hospitals, according to an article on the Baltimore Sun website.

A spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins said that "patients and employees are safe and emergency care was not disrupted."

Experts at the national symposium on how medical professionals can stay safe as they care for vulnerable patients said it can be difficult to restrict guns entirely, the article said.

James G. Hodge Jr., a professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University who presented at the Hopkins symposium, called the incident another example of hospital violence prompting many institutions to take measures to boost security.

The frequency of gun and other violence in healthcare settings across the country has prompted increased use of metal detectors, visitor screening and planning for emergency situations, Hodge said in the article. The more predictable the events become, the more exposure hospitals have to legal liability for injuries, he said.

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