rush to emergency rooms and doctors across the country because of this crisis of gun violence in our country have seen far too many gun shot wounds. joining us now, emergency physician and academic dean of public health at brown university, dr. rainey. she says firearm injuries are a public health crisis that demand solutions right now. thank you so much for being with us. i ll let you expand on that thought in a bit, but so much of the conversation of course is about guns, as it should be. mental health, as it should be, and all the other factors that go into these tragedies that we seem to see every week now. how do you look at it from a public health perspective? this is about the very real health impacts of the gun.
experience of several wumd at our level 1 pediatric center. in that experience, we prepared for this mass casualty and gathered teams of surgeons, anesthe anesthesiologists, pediatricians very quickly and we were and also the experience, we realize we re dealing with high velocity firearm injuries, we may not get a whole lot of patients. i think that s what has the most, not applications that we did receive, we are treatment. but the patients that we did not receive. that i think that is the most
anesthesiologists, pediatricians very quickly and we waited. and also from the last experience we realized that when we re dealing with high velocity firearm injuries we may not get a whole lot of patients. i think that s what has hit us the most, not of the patients that we did receive and we are honored to treat them, but the patients that we did not re receive. i think that that is the most challenging aspect of our job right now. i was at sutherland springs and what a commentary, i think, at this point that you have experience. it says something that you and your teammates are experienced in dealing with mass shooter events and, as you said, in a
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surgery because of the significant blood loss. also, weighing heavy on the medical staff, the patients who perished at the school. the patients who never made it to the hospital. in the last experience we realized that when we are dealing with high velocity firearm injuries, we may not get a whole lot. i think that is one hit us. but it is the most, not the patients we did receive, we are honored to treat them, but the patients that we did not receive. i think that is the most challenging aspect of our job right now. these doctors and nurses meet people on the worst day of their lives. they are trained. they know how to care for and treat these patients. it is still tough.