Surviving a gunshot often depends on what happens in the first five minutes after a bullet enters the body. The Memorial Day incident on Hollywood Beach in which nine people were shot illustrates just how much those initial minutes count.
As the country celebrated National Trauma Survivors Day, gunshot survivors spoke out about the long, rough road to recovery. Shooting survivors are now as young as infants and toddlers.
Smiles were wide, even as tears flowed, as nurses, doctors and hospital workers gathered in a conference room for Memorial Regional Hospital's Trauma Awareness Day Celebration with many of the people they had helped save.
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