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Forget lanes – we all need to head together toward preventing firearm injury

  • Written by Michael Hirsh, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Many of us working in the “Gun Sense” field – that is, finding a middle ground position to advance firearm safety and reduce preventable injury in our patients – had an “a-ha” moment that led us to toil in these fields.

Mine was on Nov. 2, 1981, when my friend and co-resident Dr. John C. Wood II was shot right...

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