Every year more than 116,000 people are shot in the U.S.
Gun Shot Wound (GSW), takes a hard look at routine gun violence through the eyes of our nation’s leading trauma surgeons.
The film explores how health care providers are working to combat the gun violence epidemic through hospital-based violence intervention programs in some of America’s deadliest cities.
2020 WAS THE DEADLIEST YEAR FOR GUN VIOLENCE IN DECADES.
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417
There were 417 fatal shootings in Philadelphia in 2020, a 40% increase from 2019. The majority of victims were under 30.
-Philadelphia Office of the Controller
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1,378
Gun violence deaths for kids under 17 rose from 991 in 2019 to 1,378 in 2020.
-Gun Violence Archive
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2019-2020
In New York City, the number of shooting victims doubled between 2019 and 2020.
-NBC News
-Dr. Amy J. Goldberg, MD, FACS Chair of Surgery, Temple University Hospital
“When you’re in the operating room particularly with a gun shot victim and they have a multitude of injuries… in the heat of the moment you’re doing everything you can, and even if your brain tells you it’s a non-survivable injury, your heart feels otherwise.”
“Sometimes a suture and a scalpel is a poor match for the lethality of a bullet, and sometimes you can’t fix it.”
-Dr. Sheldon Teperman, MD, FACS
Trauma Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
