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Health Care
This article was produced in partnership with THE CITY. Candidates for Queens borough president are pledging to improve access to trauma centers after a data story published by The Trace, THE CITY, and Measure of America showed that…
Community Violence
A bullet wound in Queens is more likely to be fatal than anywhere else in the city. A single trauma center serves the borough’s southern reaches, and it’s struggling to keep up.
One of the nation’s leading gun-violence researchers published a commentary in Annals of Internal Medicine on Tuesday calling on physicians to publicly pledge to discuss firearm safety with their patients. Garen Wintemute, who heads a unique state-funded firearm-violence…
Medicaid, hospitals, and victims themselves pick up most of the tab.
Data
“We were deeply misled by the available statistics."
How David Stark put a number to the knowledge gap surrounding fatal shootings.
"This is something we have been planning for over 20 years, and unfortunately it occurred," said one surgeon.
Coping with myriad physical and mental traumas, gunshot victims look to raise money for wheelchair vans, rehab bicycles, and therapy dogs.