Citation

Rubin R. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 2019; 321(2): 133-135.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.2018.20385

PMID

30548081

Abstract

The NRA’s response in November to the American College of Physicians’ newly published position paper on reducing firearm injuries and deaths—tweeted just hours before a gunman killed 12 people at a California country music bar—was blunt: “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane.”

That tweet galvanized the medical community. The hashtags #ThisIsMyLane and #ThisIsOurLane began to trend on Twitter. And less than a month after the Twitter feed @ThisIsOurLane was created, it had more than 27 000 followers.

This is a transcript of an interview with Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, one of the leading voices in the “This Is Our Lane” movement...

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