Philadelphia—Approximately 33,000 people in the United States die by firearms every year, a statistic that has remained unchanged for the past decade and a half, surgeons reported at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Surgical Association.
The researchers conducted the study partly to follow up on an appeal made to surgeons 25 years ago by Dr. William Schwab, a trauma surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. He called on surgeons to lead a