Becker's Healthcare August 7, 2024
Marc Gorelick, MD, CEO of Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota, was concerned about gun violence long before the surgeon general declared it a public health crisis in June.
In 1988, when he was a second-year pediatric resident, he wrote a letter to the editor in The Washington Post about the issue.
“This has been a longtime concern of mine,” Dr. Gorelick told Becker’s. “For me, it’s based on my personal experiences of taking care of violence victims. People who have been injured by others. People who’ve injured themselves. People who’ve died of gunshot injuries. So it really stems from my clinical experience.”
More recently, his concern stems from the fact that when he wrote that letter, gun violence was the...
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