Posted on 02/22/2018 7:59:14 PM PST by iowamark
As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation for 13 years, and have diagnosed thousands of handgun injuries to the brain, lung, liver, spleen, bowel, and other vital organs. I thought that I knew all that I needed to know about gunshot wounds, but the specific pattern of injury on my computer screen was one that I had seen only once before. In a typical handgun injury that I diagnose almost daily, a bullet leaves a laceration through an organ like the liver.
To a radiologist, it appears as a linear, thin, grey bullet track through the organ. There may be bleeding and some bullet fragments. I was looking at a CT scan of one of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who had been brought to the trauma center during my call shift. The organ looked like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer, with extensive bleeding. How could a gunshot wound have caused this much damage...
The bullets fired by an AR-15 are different; they travel at higher velocity and are far more lethal. The damage they cause is a function of the energy they impart as they pass through the body. A typical AR-15 bullet leaves the barrel traveling almost three times faster than, and imparting more than three times the energy of, a typical 9mm bullet from a handgun. An AR-15 rifle outfitted with a magazine cartridge with 50 rounds allows many more lethal bullets to be delivered quickly without reloading...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
And how are those injuries different from any other rifle?
A magazine cartridge? Expertise in one field does not transfer over to another.
Is this a violation of medical ethics?
Revealing patient information. Did she get a signed release from the family?
People are murdered with fertilizer bombs, cars and trucks, knives, and anything else handy.
Prosecute or interdict crazy people and you’ll have less crazies buyings guns.
How about multiple rounds? Is what you need to ask. The more rounds or follow up shots you put on target causes greater wounding.
I think the issue is that the doctor had never seen rifle gunshot wounds before - which isn’t surprising. Most urban area shootings involve handguns.
short gun vs long gun
She violated HIPPA.
“... An AR-15 rifle outfitted with a magazine cartridge
with 50 rounds allows many more lethal bullets
to be delivered quickly ...”
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The dumbassedness is strong with this one.
So I'll spend my time in other pursuits.
A .223 is more lethal than a 9mm round? She must be a rocket surgeon!
Is this like a “if only my patient were hit by a Mini Cooper and not a metro bus” kind of story?
But this tells us that any further gun control is a bad idea. It would mean the end of all of our freedoms. Very important article that is concise and very easy to read.
Is The Second Amendment Worth Dying For?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3633354/posts
This, too.
Deputy assigned to Florida school ‘never went in’ during shooting, sheriff says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3634489/posts
What does 12 ga. buckshot look like?
If Cruz used gasoline on a classroom full of kids, would we be having this discussion? /rhet
See the victims? If this had happened after the Fetterman battle with the Sioux Indians there would not be an Indian alive west of the Mississippi!
What they found at that battleground was so horrible the report was not released to the public for around TWENTY YEARS!
Yes...What I learned from history...When the people are disarmed by leftists, millions are killed. MILLIONS are systematically killed when leftists in power build up a head of steam with no opposition.
Leftists are the same here, the world over, and throughout history. Nasty, unstable, tyrannical M-Fers...
See Stalin, lenin, hitler, mao, pol pot, castro, etc.
I think I’ll take the opinion of Scalise on the matter rather than another liberal.
Bullshit. Our troops are at a severe disadvantage using .223 ammo (the AR uses it) vs a .30 cal from for example a AK-47.
I know guns. This is bullshit.
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