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...capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room of Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in Watts, because there they can get 24-hour-a-day experience treating the kind of gunshot wounds normally seen only in battle...
...really all the blood on the gunshot victims, or the long wait for a doctor, or the smell of the street people that bothers patients in the / emergency room at Booth Memorial in Queens, N.Y. It's the indignity. "Forty- year-old people come in with terminal cancer, and this is where they die," says Dr. Mark Henry. "With the lights on, no privacy, no curtains, with their bedpans and medical charts in clear sight of other patients and their relatives forced to crowd around their gurney...
...transformation of urban neighborhoods into war zones has turned many hospitals into combat units. "Intentional penetrating injuries" -- which is to say, gunshot and stab wounds -- used to be rare outside the worst inner- city areas. Now every hospital sees them. At the Washington Hospital Center, the number of violent injuries has jumped 94% since 1987, totaling 681 cases last year. Gunshot wounds were up 150%. Today roughly half of those with serious traumatic injuries in Los Angeles have been cut, stabbed or shot...
...Brady knows the importance of a waiting period. He knows the living hell of a gunshot wound. Jim and I are not afraid to take on the N.R.A. leaders, and we will fight them everywhere we can. As Jim said in his congressional testimony, "I don't question the rights of responsible gun owners. That's not the issue. The issue is whether the John Hinckleys of the world should be able to walk into gun stores and purchase handguns instantly. Are you willing and ready to cast a vote for a commonsense public-safety bill endorsed by experts...
...incident began around 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday when an ambulance heading down Washington St. bound for Carney Hospital was flagged down by two men in a car. Moody, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck, was a passenger in the car, police said...