Kansas City Medical Anti-Gun Reporting

Public radio offers this inevitable spin that kind of ignores low gun violence rates in most of the metro that isn't along the embattled Prospect corridor . . . In fairness . . . Here's the science . . .

“It's so startling to me how recent the conversation has become difficult regarding gun violence,” said Dr. Stefanie Ellison, an associate dean at UMKC’s School of Medicine and an emergency physician at University Health.

It’s become more challenging to study gun violence as a public health crisis, even as many in the medical community agree it is one.

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Kansas City medical students train for the inevitability of gun violence - and the trauma it brings

The doctors, surgeons and psychologists of the Kansas City metro often see the worst parts of the area's growing problem with gun violence. Several of them are attempting to better prepare the medical students who work alongside them for the reality of dealing with this public health crisis on a day-to-day basis.