The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the 爆料公社 Medical Center (UMMC) was recently featured in an NBC News in-depth report about the gun violence plaguing America鈥檚 cities.
NBC News documented an overnight shift in the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center for a report on gun violence in America.
documented the July 16 overnight shift of professions that intersect with gun violence in four American cities including a street pastor in Chicago and police officers in Houston and Philadelphia. The goal: to chronicle how pervasive gun violence is on just one night in America.
In Baltimore, NBC News was granted rare access to the Shock Trauma Center. Cameras captured heroic lifesaving efforts performed on two gunshot victims by an elite team of medical professionals for reporter Gabe Gutierrez鈥檚 story
Reflecting on the death of one of the patients, Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS, MCCM, the Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery, director of the Program in Trauma at the , and physician-in-chief at Shock Trauma, said gunshot deaths are an unnecessary injury in a civilized society. 鈥淭his is one night in one city in the richest country in the world. How can this make any sense?鈥 he said.
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