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We all have a role in helping prevent gun deaths

  • 1.  We all have a role in helping prevent gun deaths

    Posted 04-03-2023 04:19:00 PM

    "If it's not a public health problem, then why are all these people dying from it?" former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, asked about gun violence in 1993. Three decades later, not much has changed. Thanks to Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, and John Rozel, MD, MSLA, for sharing the ways that academic medicine must step up our research, education, and advocacy to help save lives. https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/doctors-and-hospitals-can-help-prevent-gun-deaths-here-s-how



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    David Skorton
    President and CEO
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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