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...fourth child, Sathy Men, escaped and recovered from a gunshot to her head. Now, 16, she testified as one of the key prosecution witnesses...
Yale's halftime show was typically rivalrous. It included a mock duel between Nathan Hale and John Harvard that ended in Harvard's assasination by gunshot, as well as a real-life explosion made to represent the violent death of a mythical little boy from Cambridge named Kenny...
...this is the second version of Dillon's death. Isadore Mihalakis, a pathologist, declared that the shape and angle of the shotgun wound indicated that Dillon could not have shot himself accidentally. There was also no evidence of the burn marks that usually come from a gunshot at close range. Mihalakis concluded that Dillon was killed not while running but while sitting, and that his death was a homicide. The police declared Scher the chief suspect, charging him with murder...
...other hand, gunshot victims who live to tell about it often owe their survival to the vast improvements in emergency trauma care since the 1960s. Not only are response times faster, but treatment often begins right at the scene as highly trained paramedics work under the direct radio supervision of physicians back at the hospital. In the most serious cases, paramedics may have already started intravenous fluids, inserted breathing tubes and alerted doctors about what to expect even before the victim arrives...
...fact, he says, emergency care of gunshot victims has reached such a high level of skill that little can be done to increase the survival rate. For this reason, he is looking to prevention as the best way to curb gunshot deaths. He and like-minded colleagues represent a new breed of physician eager to affect public policy about gun violence by using their special insights as healers. "The doctors realized people were being shot faster than they could sew them up," says U.C. Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring, the "dean" of firearms-policy scholars. "So they decided...