family anguish that they are experiencing, tell us. i think as we move forward, it is paramount to book pay attention to the clinical implications of firearm injuries so we can better design our health care systems to respond anticipate the needs, but also to recognize that we ultimately, as a society, bear the cost of this through our employers, our insurers and our government and taxpayers. and our action. doctor dr. zirui song, thank you so much, really appreciate it, thank you for joining us. still ahead, a new update on congresswoman carolyn maloney s efforts to a gun manufacturers anufacturers we believe there s an innovator in all of us. that s why we build technology
critical setting as a fire arm injury. what is the most surprising thing. obviously, will not obviously, it makes sense that people involved and it s traumatic instance would have complicating factors physically and psychiatric plea, but is there anything surprising in the data you found that made you shocked by it? i think the most striking thing to us where the $30 an dollar increase in spending stemming from direct medical care alone, in the first year after the fire arm injury. when you apply that to the roughly 85,000 survivors of non fatal firearm injuries in the country each year, that is roughly 2.5 billion dollars in additional spending due to direct medical care alone semi from firearm injuries. that is a large amount. you might imagine that applies to many other public health and social needs that our country faces, and that was certainly a striking implication. in addition, fellow members themselves faced and increase health care spending
or medicare in our study, which, in fact, comes down to wages foregone or taxpayer dollars. when we listen to the stories of the family s in that show, we remember the human toll of each life touched by firearm injuries, well outside the scope of the deaths alone. i think for many years, as members of the public, when we hear about mass shootings or gun violence in general, we tend to mark these events in our memories but the number of people who died. although that is incredibly important and every life loss deserves its legacy and memory, the fact that so many others, not just offramp s supporters of their family members are also touched in a profound way, but economically and politically, is something that we will live with us i just want to very quickly when i interviewed fred
family anguish that they are experiences tell us. i think as we move forward, it is paramount to book pay attention to the clinical implications of firearm injuries so we can better design our health care systems to respond and anticipate the needs, but also to recognize that we ultimately, as a society, bear the cost of this through our employers, our insurers and our government and taxpayers. and our inaction. doctor dr. zirui song, thank you so much, really appreciate it, thank you for joining us. thank you. still ahead, a new update on congresswoman carolyn maloney efforts to hold gun manufacturers accountable. table. i didn t wait. i could ve delayed telling my doctor i was short of breath just reading a book. but i didn t wait. they told their doctors. and found out they had. atrial fibrillation. a condition which makes it about five times more likely to have a stroke.
and 12,000 other family members from one year before the fire arm injury to one year after. these were all firearm injuries that were non fatal. we found that in the first year, survivors of non fatal firearm injuries had a 50% increase of mental health disorders, 85% increase of substance use order and 45% of pain. defense members were not on skate, despite not being shot themselves. that the members of survivors experience they told percent increase in mental health disorders that were stained through the first year. quickly, the definition of firearm injury in this case is what, in grazed by a bullet? or is it something different? my colleagues and i looked up both intentional and unintentional firearm injuries, which include police shootings, accidental firearm injuries in the home, homicides, suicide attempts and anything that