The trauma bay in the emergency department at Temple University Hospital after resuscitation efforts failed. Credit Eric Curran.
Temple University Hospital [in Philadelphia] treated 481 patients with gunshot wounds last year, and 97 died. In this one hospital in one neighborhood in one city. As a country, we lost nearly 40,000 lives to guns in 2017.
(Eric Curran [third-year medical student], “I Remember the First Time I Saw a Teenager Die,” NYTimes, 2-14-19)
(c) 2019 JMN.
The photo and article are graphic. Another part of the story rightfully exposed.
I believe so, too. Thank you.