Posted on 09/18/2018 7:47:50 PM PDT by Simon Green
Over 2,500 medical students and healthcare professionals at over 30 leading medical centers held events on Monday urging the public to treat "gun violence" as a public health crisis, The Mercury News reported.
The events were part of Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE), a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow, a Republican, and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer, a Democrat. Winslow is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon who was deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan.
At Stanford, healthcare professionals spoke about the health risk associated with guns, the gun epidemic and trauma care. At the University of California San Francisco, two panels discussed California's firearms laws and recommended ways to talk to patients about firearm access, safety, and risk.
According to Spain, it's difficult for medical professionals to get involved in the gun debate because of the political nature surrounding firearms.
“If this were any other public health problem, we wouldn’t stand for it. But it’s such a hot button political topic that we lose the ability to talk about it," Spain told The Mercury News. “We’ve been a little slow. We’re politically adverse. Our mission is education and research. This is advocacy.”
Medical associations and groups have become involved in the gun control debate. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association are just a few who have thrown their hat into the arena.
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Overstuffed blowhards
To ban is to confiscate, or otherwise the term is meaningless.
Let us know how you intend to carry out confiscation. Details, please.
It’s time to ban all Stanford Doctors.
Come and get them Doc...
Not you. Not mine. Not ever.
Substitute “buttsecks” for “guns” in this article, and the political landscape surrounding the issue will be turned upside-down.
If they really want to save Lives they can ban Cars and Swimming Pools.
That genie has been out of the bottle for more than a hundred years.
We need to ban Democratic Socialists as they seem to be fully automatic...
Did the participants discuss edged weapons or thick wooden cudgels?
A doctor that doesn’t know the difference between the words averse and adverse.
Yup, I’m going to take his advice on NOTHING!
Doctors cause 10 times more deaths by mistakes, incompetence, addiction, etc. than all firearms deaths in the US. It’s about time that we started requiring extensive background checks for all doctors and yearly reviews and retesting. Any doctor convicted of a felony should be barred from holding a medical license for life. Doctor caused deaths are a national health issue.
Has this organization made any statements on banning high fructose corn syrup? I wonder which contributes to more doctor visits and deaths in America.
how about we ban Stanford?
sounds like a far better solution to the problem, imo.
I suggest they go to the areas surrounding Stanford, like East Palo Alto, or maybe West Oakland, near their rival, Cal, and see how their disarmament plan works.
WHAT’S UP - YOUR ASS - DOC?
You don’t get to vote my rights away, you elitist coastal pukes. But feel free to come in person ...
Ban whatever the f*** you want, mother f***ers.
You ain’t the boss of me.
Time to ban Stanford Doctors.
Medical mistakes kill far more Americans...
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