‘This is our lane’: Doctors speak out against gun violence after Texas school shooting
Pediatric doctors insist that gun violence is an urgent pediatric public health emergency, reigniting the social media campaign #ThisIsOurLane.
Dr. Bindi Naik-Mathuria, a pediatric surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, knows what assault rifles can do to a child’s body.
The damage, she said, is often insurmountable.
“It’s not just the hole you see on the outside. It’s a huge blast effect,” Naik-Mathuria said. “You see completely shredded organs. Vessels are completely disrupted. There’s no way to salvage them.”
That’s why Naik-Mathuria is full-throatedly proclaiming that the issue of gun violence is “very much our lane.”
“We have our hands inside these people, these children, trying to save them,” she said. “How can anyone tell us that it’s not our problem?”
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