Physicians stand up to NRA authorities to tell them to "stay in their hallway"

I am a trained psychiatrist in the United States.

I was trained to ask each suicidal patient about firearms before they returned home

I have seen countless PTSD patients following gunshot wounds

I work in Canada now

I did not have a single patient with a gunshot wound#thisisourlane

– Dr. Javeed Sukhera (@javeedsukhera) November 10, 2018

expensive @NRA,
What should I say to my patient who has had severe daily headaches for 9 years as a result of the bullet in her head? The doctors were not able to remove it because of its location. She had a restraining order against the shooter.#ThisISMyLane #ThisISOurLane

– Linda Girgis, MD (@DrLindaMD) November 11, 2018

I guess you have never cared for a victim of gun violence. Contact us when you have them. #thisisourlane #the arms control @NRA https://t.co/RQgvNXGkLS

– Brittany Hasty, MD, MHPE (@brittnhasty) November 8, 2018

I am a young emergency doctor and I have already lost count of the number of children I have seen die of TSE. You are here to make money and we are here to save lives. Get out of our network. #ThisIsOURLane

– Regina Royan, MD MPH (@ReginaRoyan) November 9, 2018

I would kindly invite the author of this tweet and anyone else from the ANR to join me at the hospital the next time I look after a child injured or killed by an unprotected firearm was an innocent bystander. #ThisIsOurLane https://t.co/vQg3BsjYyJ

– Jeannie Moorjani, MD (@JeanMoorjani) November 8, 2018

@NRA Tell that to the 19-year-old I saw in the emergency, who was shot in the back and lost all sensation in his leg just by being in the wrong place. Or 25 years old who arrived with a pneumatic-tensioner and had to be intubated and operated after being shot #ThisIsOurLane https://t.co/ZKzy3IhlV8

– Ali Ahmed (@ AliAhmed2358) November 10, 2018

Hello NRA. I work in psychiatry. My patients are dying because of firearms. We have clear evidence that with fewer guns, people do not change their ways of trying to commit suicide, they get help. Restriction of means is an important part of security planning. This is my path. #ThisIsOurLane #GunControlNow https://t.co/Zz0gYDCjNi

– Chelsea A (@ChelseaArata) November 9, 2018

When doctors recommend salt intake, no one accuses us of being "anti-sodium". Nobody tells us to stay in our path. Wanting to reduce the supply of bullets does not make us anti-firearms. That makes us pro-health. #LifeIsOurLane #ThisIsOurLane https://t.co/DFtcpTVey0

– Amy Goldberg (@AJGTempleSurg) November 10, 2018

.@NRA the doctors should stay in our hallway:

We are preparing for a self-inflicted GSW of 3 years. He arrives: Perfect except for the hole in his head. Intubated through brain matter in his throat. Hold mom's hand telling him that there is no hope.
Wish never to cross the tears again#ThisIsOurLane

– Sage Myers, MD MSCE (@Redsoxma) November 10, 2018

The medical community's outcry against the NRA's tweet is not limited to the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane. The common theme was that these physicians must deal regularly with the victims of gun violence and are therefore fully qualified, both professionally and morally, to support gun control legislation.

As a trauma surgeon and survivor of #Violence by firearms I can not believe the daring of the @NRA make such a declaration of division.

We take care of these patients every day. Where are you when I have to tell all those families that their loved one is dead. @DocsDemand # Docs4GunSense https://t.co/XrY1G3hIi2

– Joseph Sakran (@JosephSakran) November 7, 2018

Not only will we not "stay in our way", but we will do everything in our power to ensure that Americans in communities across the country are safe from these senseless tragedies.

– Joseph Sakran (@JosephSakran) November 7, 2018

We are not important: we are important for the care of others
We are not anti-firearms: we are bullet holes in our patients
We consult everyone except the extremists
Most troubling, in fact, is the death and disability of armed violence, which is unprecedented in the world. Https://t.co/E8qz3lewK7

– Esther Choo MD MPH (@choo_ek) November 8, 2018

Having to do a caesarean section on a dead dead girl, shot in the head in the ER Trauma Room, NEVER leaves your memory. the @NRA has a lot of nerve telling us doctors to stay in our path …

– Ian Fields MD (@eeyanmiller) November 8, 2018

I'm busy with the dying. WEEKS, it can take weeks before someone dies from a gunshot wound to the head. I watched it. I took care of these patients and their families. Until you take care of people like us, stay in YOUR way. It's ours. #medtwitter #enough

– Liana Eskola, DO (@LianaEskola) November 9, 2018

Judy Melinek, a San Francisco-based forensic pathologist, was interviewed by The Guardian about a tweet that she posted denouncing the NRA's stance that doctors must stop talking about gun control fire.

Do you have any idea how many bullets I shoot at corpses each week? It's not just my way. It's my fucking highway. https://t.co/48S9UIFaV2

– Judy Melinek M.D. (@drjudymelinek) November 9, 2018

"I was so angry," Melinek explained. "I was so angry, hence the foul language, I found myself at work for a case involving a gunshot wound, I had another one earlier this week." And I j & # 39; 39 was so angry that anyone would want to put a doctor on trial every single day to try to save people's lives. "

She went on to say, "We are not opposed to the second amendment, we are not opposed to research, research efforts, or funding for research into what can be used to prevent gun violence. death, that it is the trigger, safety, training or the idea of ​​requiring insurance and asking people to take out insurance in case their weapon would used to kill someone else.We need to do some research and have the necessary data to back them up, and nothing is happening now.

The abstract of the article from the American College of Physicians that has angered the NRA has clearly demonstrated that it addresses the issue of gun violence as a problem public health.

"In the United States, the violence caused by firearms remains a public health crisis that requires the immediate attention of the nation," says the summary. "ACP countries worry not only about the alarming number of mass shootings in the United States, but also about the daily number of firearm-related violence in neighborhoods, homes, workplaces and places. The policy recommendations in this document build on and reinforce and develop the current ACP policies approved by the Board of Regents in April 2014 and are based on an analysis of approaches that the evidence suggests will be effective in reducing the number of firearm-related deaths and injuries, reducing the number of firearm-related injuries and deaths in the United States, and once again calling on its non-member physicians, non-physicist clinicians, policy makers and the general public to take action to address this important problem. "

Matthew Rozsa

Matthew Rozsa is an author of breaking news for Salon. He holds a Masters degree in History from Rutgers University-Newark and holds a Ph.D. in History from Lehigh University. His work has been published in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.
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