Peetz Allan B, Haider Adil
A trauma and critical care surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is also a member of the affiliated faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society.
A trauma surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Kessler Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
AMA J Ethics. 2018 May 1;20(5):475-482. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.msoc1-1805.
The effects of violence are clearly a central component of any trauma surgeon's job. The role trauma surgeons should play in its prevention and advocacy, however, is not clearly defined. In this article, we discuss the statistics and lack of research on gun violence and survey some of the moral frameworks that define a trauma surgeon's professional responsibilities in violence prevention at a practice and a policy level.
