chicagomag.com: Call it a dubious distinction, but Chicago is one of the best places in America to get field experience as a trauma surgeon. The city’s Level 1 trauma centers — hospitals specially equipped to handle the most severe injuries — treat a staggering volume and variety of patients, including, most notably, victims of so-called penetrating trauma, typically gunshot and knife wounds. In Chicago, such cases constitute nearly 30 percent of all Level 1 trauma admissions, compared with 4 percent nationwide. And then there’s the constant stream of those injured in the accidents and oddball misadventures one might expect in a city of three million people.
Chicago talked to a dozen practicing or recently retired trauma surgeons, each affiliated with at least one of the city’s six Level 1–certified hospitals: Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, and University of Chicago Medicine/Comer Children’s Hospital. Speaking anonymously, these doctors talked candidly about, among other things, what it’s like to operate on a 2-year-old shooting victim, what happens when violence spills into the trauma bay, why you should really wear a motorcycle helmet, and how best to handle a severed limb. The rest is here
“Nobody gets shot just once anymore. Everybody is shot 4 or 5 times.”
They must being taking lessons from California cops.
“Nobody gets shot just once anymore. Everybody is shot 4 or 5 times.”
They’re using too small of a caliber.
What a waste.
More practice.
Sight picture, press.
They aren’t kidding about best environment to learn/ practice medicine in.
I was raised as a new RN in a ghetto hospital. Socioeconomically, hanging out in a low education, low income environment, you will definitely see some shit. Most of it reinforces the “truth is stranger than fiction” and all of it absolutely reinforces being able to operate outside of the box.
I couldn’t be happier to be out of there.
They wouldn’t have this problem if we would eliminate the 2ND Ammendment…..Oh, wait…..
Great article, well worth the read.
First: You can’t shoot a handgun accurately if you hold it like it comes in the box.
Second: If your life is going to depend on it, buy the best ammo.
Third: Spray and prey/pray is not a good tactic for defense.
When you learn to shoot with a single shot weapon, you learn marksmanship.
Oh, was I supposed to be aghast they are trying to kill each other off?
Sorry, my bad, I was just trying to take some of the load off the hospitals.
Think of the taxpayers.
Because, as Clint Smith said: Because they don’t make a Colt 46
I love medical war stories. This article was great.
If you raise you kids in the hood, shooting each other is SOP.
Being a hood rat is deadly.
My daughter was an ER nurse. She learned one thing. If you are in a bad neighborhood, what ever you do, never mind your own business.
That is the most dangerous thing anybody can do. That was all she heard. “Well, I was just standing around, minding my own business and then…”
Not very helpful regarding the best way to handle a severed limb.
I’m just sticking with my tried and true method of simply adding them to my collection.