Sakran: Doctors Have an Obligation to Work to Outlaw Guns That Liquefy Organs and Explode Bones

By Grace Stevens

[ED: If you’re not familiar with Dr. Joseph Sakran’s distinguished body of work, see our earlier posts here, here and here.]
 
Medical professionals have an obligation to work beyond the bedside to protect the health of our communities. It is our duty to respond to the gun violence crisis, which is perhaps the most important public health problem in modern time.
 
Healthcare workers have seen far too often the consequences of assault weapons, which transmit such energy and force that they liquefy organs and explode bones, leaving some victims only identifiable through DNA tests.
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