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STANFORD – Although they stood just yards away, even the best and brightest trauma experts at Stanford Hospital were no match for a small single bullet.
Inside the doors of the hospital’s Emergency Department on a routine day this summer, the award-winning team of surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses and technicians scurried about, helping fix and heal.
Just outside, sitting in a chair and unnoticed, was a man with a gun. He put it to his head and fired — one of nearly 100 gun-related deaths in the U.S. that day – and died instantly.
“Terrible,” said Dr. David Spain, chief of trauma at Stanford Health Care. “Senseless. Just senseless.”
On Monday, angry and frustrated by gun violence, over 2500 medical students and healthcare professionals at Stanford Medical Center, UC San Francisco and over 30 other leading medical centers are holding events to treat firearm violence as a public health crisis.
It’s a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer. Winslow, a registered Republican, is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan. Democrat Sarabeth Spitzer, 26, is a magna cum laude Harvard graduate who dreams of becoming a trauma surgeon.
At noon on the Dean’s Lawn, next to the Clark Center on the Stanford campus, leaders wearing light blue attire with the SAFE (Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic) logo will speak about the health risks posed by guns, then hold a teach-in about gun epidemiology, trauma care and related topics. The public is invited.
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Stanford doctors lead national effort for gun safety
Inside the doors of the hospital’s Emergency Department on a routine day this summer, the award-winning team of surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses and technicians scurried about, helping fix and heal.
Just outside, sitting in a chair and unnoticed, was a man with a gun. He put it to his head and fired — one of nearly 100 gun-related deaths in the U.S. that day – and died instantly.
“Terrible,” said Dr. David Spain, chief of trauma at Stanford Health Care. “Senseless. Just senseless.”
On Monday, angry and frustrated by gun violence, over 2500 medical students and healthcare professionals at Stanford Medical Center, UC San Francisco and over 30 other leading medical centers are holding events to treat firearm violence as a public health crisis.
It’s a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer. Winslow, a registered Republican, is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan. Democrat Sarabeth Spitzer, 26, is a magna cum laude Harvard graduate who dreams of becoming a trauma surgeon.
At noon on the Dean’s Lawn, next to the Clark Center on the Stanford campus, leaders wearing light blue attire with the SAFE (Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic) logo will speak about the health risks posed by guns, then hold a teach-in about gun epidemiology, trauma care and related topics. The public is invited.
More at ...
Stanford doctors lead national effort for gun safety
