The Surgeon’s Role in Combating the Firearm-Related Injury Epidemic

The following is an edited excerpt of a video interview with Ashley Hink, MD, at the 2017 annual meeting of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. For the full discussion, please click here.

There are approximately 33,000 deaths in our country from firearm-related injuries every year. About two-thirds of those are from suicide. The rest are mostly from homicide. What does that mean in the grand scheme of things? Well, for those between the ages of about 4 and 25 years, it’s the