Citation

Ranney ML, Sankoff J, Newman DH, Fenton A, Mukau L, Durston WE, Ballard DW, Wintemute GJ. Ann. Emerg. Med. 2013; 61(6): 700-702.

Affiliation

Injury Prevention Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI. Electronic address: mranney@lifespan.org.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.02.015

PMID

23489650

Abstract

At the time of this writing, it has been 2 months since Newtown. We have each mourned from a distance, imagining the heartbreak. We have asked ourselves what we would have done were this our community, our school, our child. We have formed opinions about what may or may not have stopped this tragedy. And we have each quietly recalled other tragedies that we have witnessed.

Now it is time, as individuals and as a specialty, to take action to decrease the likelihood of future deaths....

Language: en