when the nra says you weighing in on policy issues like background checks isn t in your lane, don t they have a point? we have both the possibility and the responsibility to weigh in on this issue that we re having to deal with on a daily basis. reporter: the nra push back includes several tweets from doctors that support the nra s position. one physician saying that the anti-gun doctors that write some of the articles are not practicing medicine in the trenches. one retired physician saying he is appalled by the leftist direction that organized medicine has taken. brian todd, cnn, washington. dr. amy goldberg is a trauma surgeon at temple university hospital. thank you for being with us. just for viewers so they understand, i wanted to show the interesting response you had on twitter to what we heard from the nra when they were telling people to stay in their lane, doctors to stay in their lane. you said when doctors make recommendations about salt
ems, first responders. he had already mentioned several women who were working the radio, who were working dispatch on that sunday evening there. as just all hell was breaking loose in las vegas as a result of this madman taking to the 32nd floor at the mandalay bay hotel and wreaking havoc and terror in the lives of far too many americans. 22,000 people were at that music festival. 58 at least have been killed. and we know at least 515 others were injured as a result of that. so with that said, we are talking a little about gunshot injuries as we wait for the president. so we ll go to dr. amy goldberg, an expert in treating gunshot victims. she works in the trenches, removing bullets for 30 years. so now trauma chief and chair of the surgery department at temple university hospital in philadelphia.
dr. goldberg, thank you so much for being with me. and as we wait for the president, here s my question. and guys, if we have some of the photos of the guns the shooter had been using from his hotel room. this is my question. from the perspective of a trauma surgeon, when you see victims in the er, how do you begin to treat that? so i think what we all do when we take care of patients such as these, we use the training we all have, and believe it or not ignore what we see and pay attention to the abc, airway breathing and circulation. and that s the training that all of us have had in how we take care of patients and what will kill patients first. i read a piece where you were pro filed and said it s possible
for a surgeon to get distracted from the wrong wound. most dangerous don t always look the worst. explain, least. that s the point. these kind of injuries and bullets cause devastating outside injuries to the patients and it can be distracting to see them. these are almost like military injuries that we are not used to seeing in the civilian population. so we have to ignore what we see and just take care of the patient s airway and are they breathing and what is the blood pressure and stay on the path how we take care of the patients regardless of what their injuries are. dr. amy goldberg, thank you so much. we do need to listen in here to the governor of nevada speaking ahead of the president. i also want to thank the people across the country for
problem but an angry white man problem. the gop needs new faces or face extinction. and coast to coast, tributes to men and women who fight for our freedom. tonight, we honor america s veterans. stand by and take it. hello, i m don lemon. first we get you caught up on the headlines. people came out to thank our heroes. in new york they aided victims of superstorm sandy collecting winter coats for those hit hardest by the storm and arlington national cemetery president obama laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns and met with families who lost loved ones. lawmakers have pointed questions about the investigation into david petraeus extramarital affair and want to know if national security was breached. peter king talked with candy crowley. they re saying the fbi didn t realize until election day that general petraeus was involved. it just doesn t add up. petraeus resigned from his post friday and admitted he had an affair. sources say the affair was with his