Las Vegas shooting prompts call for clinicians to fight firearm injury crisis

The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history recently took place at an open-air concert in Las Vegas on October 1, giving a horrific reminder of the growing health care epidemic of firearm injury and death, and leading many health care professionals to contemplate their role in addressing and preventing such crises.
Editors from Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine and PLOS Medicine provided several ways that health care professionals can fight against the threat of firearms in a joint editorial published in all four (Read more...)

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