MISSING FROM THIS STORY OF “GUN VIOLENCE:” Any information on who fired the shots. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with whether there were guns in the home, but that’s what doctors want to ask about:
Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric trauma surgeon and the director of Northwell Health Center for Gun Violence Prevention, has been screening every ER patient who comes in for their exposure to guns and collecting the data.
“Even if you come in with a headache, a urinary tract infection, you’re going to get these questions because we want to normalize the way that we talk about gun injury risk. It shouldn’t be a taboo topic,” Sathya said. “It needs to be something that’s part of our medical vocabulary that patients expect us to ask, and we find that most patients are extremely receptive to the conversation.”
Frost said he wanted young gun violence victims like Aalayah and their families to know that there are people who are fighting for them and won’t stop.
Want to do something about kids being shot under circumstances like these? Do something about (mostly black) urban street gangs. Will the medical profession commit to eradicating those? Of course not, that would be racist.
FLASHBACK: POLITICIANS IN BED WITH THE GANGS: One More Time: It’s Not ‘Gun Violence’ It’s Gang Violence.