I'm a Trauma Surgeon and a Shooting Victim. I Have Every Right to Speak Out on Gun Violence.
The NRA thinks doctors should “stay in their lane.” They’re wrong—and I would know.
I was lying on a gurney with my eyes closed. Although I was drifting in and out of consciousness, I could sense that a lot was going on around me, because of me. At one point that night, I looked up and saw a man dressed almost like an astronaut, covered head-to-toe in protective equipment. He was a trauma surgeon.
Hours before, I was at my high school’s first football game of the year. This all happened a long time ago, when I
