Gun Shot Wound: A Trauma Surgeon's Grim Reality | ENDEVR Documentary
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Gun Shot Wound takes a hard look at routine gun violence in America through the eyes of its trauma surgeons. The film examines the crisis through a public health lens and highlights hospital-based violence intervention programs designed to combat the epidemic.
Every day in the United States, an average of 318 people are shot-about 116,000 victims each year. Most aren’t involved in mass shootings; instead, they’re caught in the web of routine, almost invisible, gun violence. More than 35,000 of these victims will die from their wounds.
Dr. Amy Goldberg leads the team that treats more than 500 gunshot victims each year. In 2019, someone was shot every 6 1⁄2 hours in Philadelphia, where she works. We follow Dr. Goldberg on a busy Friday evening in the trauma center. In the space of 12 hours, she’ll treat three gunshot victims and perform emergency life-saving surgery on one of them. And since 80% of gunshot victims survive in Philadelphia, Gun Shot Wound gives an authentic look at the daunting process of rehab and often permanent disability. Meanwhile, Dr. Joseph Sakran shares his day-to-day experience treating gunshot victims in Baltimore and introduces viewers to Brandon Fisher. Brandon arrived at the trauma bay nearly dead with 13 bullet wounds and injuries in almost every cavity in his body. It took a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons and more than 15 surgeries for Brandon to recover.
Gun Shot Wound shows what really happens when someone gets shot and highlights how physicians and hospitals are not just treating patients, but going above and beyond to prevent gun violence.
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We follow Dr. Goldberg on a busy Friday evening in the trauma center. In the space of 12 hours, she’ll treat three gunshot victims and perform emergency life-saving surgery on one of them. And since 80% of gunshot victims survive in Philadelphia, Gun Shot Wound gives an authentic look at the daunting process of rehab and often permanent disability.
Meanwhile, Dr. Joseph Sakran shares his day-to-day experience treating gunshot victims in Baltimore and introduces viewers to Brandon Fisher. Brandon arrived at the trauma bay nearly dead with 13 bullet wounds and injuries in almost every cavity in his body. It took a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons and more than 15 surgeries for Brandon to recover.
Where is video with no blurr?
This isn't a gun or bullet problem. This is a culture problem of the cities. Thanks to people thinking it was a good idea to create such violent video games and rap music to promote gun violence. It's not a disease it's a culture indoctrination.
Love Dr. Joseph Sakran!! He was a patient at the hospital I worked at!!
Where is the president on this situation why is he not doing more?😢
Imagine if we could just get the guns out of the hands of the traditional Democrat party base; America would be the safest country on the planet.
These are the type of documentaries that should be forced to be watched in Schools, very impactful
That and DUI accident videos too.
@@crand20033Absolutely. It’d show them how making bad choices can change other people’s lives
So So True
We teach about a beautiful African American culture and the value it brings to society. Showing them this would just confuse them.
@@nemochicky4697 And change your own life too.
I'm a paralyzed survivor of random shooting. Thank You to Harbor View Trauma Center Seattle and LifeFlight for giving myself & many others an opportunity to live . ☮
$5 says the gun that shot that bullet wasn’t obtained legally
@@bkelsey6692whether or not that was actually the case, there’s a very good chance that even if the gun was obtained illegally, it was purchased or stolen from somebody that obtained it legally.
We don’t do nearly enough to regulate the sale of firearms or the expectations for legal gun ownership in this country.
@@bkelsey6692another gun nut
I’m a spinal cord injury case manager and people have no clue how often we see gsw patients
I'm from bremerton
As a Viet Nam combat vet, & retired 30 yr street cop, I saw more than my share of GSW. The ER docs & nurses do amazing work on these victims. I believe society has lost its moral compass & what used to be a fistfight now gets settled w/a gun.
Well stated sir. Thank you for your service to this country. May you have a peaceful life in retirement. It has become a crazy world with the basic lack of respect and the consequences that people don't consider with their conduct if they feel disrespected.
I live in New Zealand, and we are seeing slowly increasing numbers gunshot deaths and woundings of people here as the years go by. Usually gang related.
There are also the odd hunting accidental shootings as well.
Yes.
If fistfights were always a "just, honorable, respectable, mutual, pugilist-combat... fistfights!"
And whatever caused it, (if anything),
all just ended right there and then and eeeeeverybodoy was better off for it and just walked away!
Unfortunately, as I'm sure you well know...
Some of us have more violent tendencies.
Some folks carry grudges like luggage.
And some folks "can't," "are not allowed" or "supposed to" defend themselves, or others.
Like Daniel Penny.
Best regards!
Boys will learn how to be men from the men that are around them. Whether that's a good father at home, or criminal thugs on the street. Women can birth and raise children; but they cannot make a boy a man.
It makes me sick that they are glorified by our youth in America. And other countries follow
While I was in the emergency room, a young shooting victim was brought in. There was just a curtain between our two spaces. The ER team was doing everything they could to stop the bleeding so they could access his injuries and get him into surgery, but it was losing battle as I could see blood running in under the curtain into my side. One of the doctor's yelled to get someone in to start mopping it up before one of them fell as it was so slippery. They finally got him into surgery, but in the aftermath the space looked like a war zone. It took a couple of people a good 30+ minutes to clean both "rooms", his and mine. I had never seen so much blood. I later found out it was a gang shooting and he was just 21 years. He died in surgery. My heart hurt for his family, but also the hospital staff that fought so hard to keep him alive. I will never forget it.
that must have been horrifying to witness and hear. rest in peace to the victim and i hope you find peace as well
What a sad tragic story.
@@olivia-ii9lc thank you
have had to clean up the trauma bay and it is a gory as it looks just have to keep your head straight and get it cleaned up because it will be needed again
He probably chose that life tbh
As a former cop Ive seen ER docs and nurses do their thing on many occasions. These men and women are true heroes
Thanks 🙏
And none of them get paid enough to do this work. I know many that have quit due to PTSD. Everyone has their limits.
Thanks for your service sir 🙏
Indeed, the most important citizens that we have.
Can you imagine them saving some thugs life just so he can spend the rest of his life in prison?
I just wanna shout out all the housekeepers and all the other support staff that aren’t doctors or paramedics that have to also deal with this after what ever outcome. Cause if you’re dealing with that too it still causes unnecessary trauma and stress for the people that gotta clean it up.
I remember a south metro fire video that did say in life if dispatcher and they said their not even considered first responders their considered receptionists. And they were involved in a study about PTSD.
Finally someone was paying attention.
Legit much respect
Ty because what we see we definitely can't unsee traumatizing to say the least the blood the smell
Yes thank you God bless you
Thank you for this, because they always get left behind in the aftermath. First responders as well. Without them you don’t make it to the hospital. ❤
to the man who said 'I don't know why I am crying right now', I am so glad you can.
Excellent documentary. Thank you. When my mother was shot in 1966 it was by God’s grace she made it. The 38 caliber bullet tore through her like a “hot iron fire poker” she told me later-it passed through her lower abdomen, through her spleen, diaphragm, her lung and finally into her left shoulder. Fortunately in our small community a retired Army surgeon had just opened his practice. He and two other local doctors worked on my mother and saved her. After 10 hours she was in recovery. I was 16. I will always be thankful for the doctors that saved her. She died in 2007 at 96. And the bullet was still there lodged in her shoulder till she passed away. Thank you all nurses and doctors, technicians and counselors for your dedication and service. Bless the people that are taking their experience to the streets to educate and prevent this violence.
And thank u for sharing your beautiful story ❤
Great comment
Wow! The power of god!
@@SfKittypower of surgeons and everyone involved *
96 years, she lived more than a beautiful life❤️!
“This country has an illness”. The good doctor is correct!! The sickness is in the heart of the people 😢 No weapon acts on its own volition. Some person has to pick it up and put an action behind it.
True. Everyone only blames the guns, but that's only part of the problem. What makes a human being use a weapon against his fellow men for no reason. There is a gang culture: music, clothes, lifestyle.
The other one is criminality. Most of these guys are unemployed and hooked into the drug business. They need to defend themselves from other thugs, so that's why they need a gun.
Amen! Thank you for your comment!
The only illness this country has is the greedy corrupt politicians and the sorry President we have in office right now.
That illness is called gang/drug violence. The violence between those 2 cause make up for more than half the violent crimes.
They need to bring back 3 strike system for most of the drug charges, especially intent to distribute and maybe even death penalty since they selling things that potentially be OD'ing people.
People keep dying because of folks like you and their fragile identity.
My older brother got shot in the abdomen back in 2016 at our Halloween party trying to break up a fight he was 33 at the time. . The shooter shot 8 times only hitting my brother once and luckily no one else. . I was right next to him and saw it all..After everyone fled frantically my brother was in shock holding his wound walking around. I immediately laid my brother down and made a pillow for him with my costume and held his wound with the rest of my costume and yelled for someone to call the ambulance. I didn’t want to rush him to the hospital in the car because I didn’t want to move him and risk the possibility of having him bleed out in the car so I had to make that decision and thankfully I made the right one . The doctor had told me the bullet was a hair away from tearing his artery and I did a right move by laying him down and holding his wound till help arrived . It was so devastating hearing my bro say he’s dying and losing consciousness while everyone was panicking including our parents. . I felt like he took a bullet for me . Seeing my older brother battle for his life for 5 months going through 14 + surgeries and being put into a induced coma to fight off infection and everything else was so frustrating and devastating because it was all meaningless! , over someone’s ego . A POS who wasn’t even invited to our party and who was scared to fight !and to top it off only served 7 years Is so frustrating! Because I have to live with the fact that I threw this Halloween party and my brother took a bullet for me and to see what meaningless bullet did to him and the scarring it left him , the reminder just hurts me ! .. I give it to these first responders, surgeons etc who help save lives over meaningless acts from cowards. Thank you and thank you for saving my brothers life 🙏🏽. Put the guns down !
I’m so sorry to hear that not only your brother but you and your family were impacted. I hope that everything is going okay. That person is so cruel
Its not the guns. Its the mindset, sadly.
It is not the guns, it is the people behind them. People can do the same thing with knives, I don’t think these generations know what their actions do to people.
"when a wife loses a husband, she's a widow;
when a child loses a parent, an orphan..
but when a mother loses a child, there's no name for that..."
that got me.
Same. It’s tragic. As a gun shot survivor myself I’m thankful my father didn’t have to bury me.
@@tparker4458you r very lucky ,my 18 year old wasn't 💔😭plz take care🫂
That sentiment breaks my heart every time.
I have lost a 14 year old son. Thankfully not a violent death. Living, having lost a child... INDESCRIBABLY PAINFUL. Physically and emotionally.
I call myself "bereaved parent". NOT a title I ever imagined. 😭
If there was ever anyone whom deserves recognition for this insanely difficult issue, these doctors are absolute heroes!!!
And the nurses and other medical staff!!
As a Wound Care Specialist, I have helped with the aftermath/recovery of many GSW victims. This story of the teams that reach out to the community and reduce the violence is INSPIRING. Thank you ALL.
Thank you for your essential & difficult work. 🙏
Thank you so much for what you do it was the Wound Car Center who cared for my sons wound after he left the hospital from being shot.
Thank you, this was excellent. Canadian retired nurse here, I cared for one GSW in my entire career. I accompanied him to closest trauma center and I can still remember his terrified eyes as we made our way. All he wanted was to see his wife, but we didn’t have time for that. He died in surgery never seeing her. I actually met his wife about a year later, she came to hospital in deep depression from the trauma. I told her what he had said and like to think this helped her.
How sad. I hope she found the strength to move on.
That breaks my heart. I have never seen my husband really afraid, but I know he would want to see me. And, if I wasn’t there…. I don’t know what I’d do.
This is ver sad. I like to think that i will do the same, to look for my girlfriend at that moment
Thanks for your comments. The main point of my post was that I had one GSW in 36 years, and I worked in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa.
Wow, i am a RN, and I can't even count how many GSW's that have come through our doors. What is truly the worst, is when the victim is a small child who is in the wrong place at the wrong time...esp when that wrong place is within the "safety" of their own home
My brother worked as an ER Doctor in Newark New Jersey in the late 1980’s through 1993. He told me that the evenings in the ER were like working in a war zone…From Drs. and Nurses to first responders, it has to take a toll on a person after a certain amount of time or you just become numb to this.
I’m from Paterson NJ and I currently work at Newark Beth Israel in Newark NJ BUT as a dialysis tech for Davita
It takes a huge toll on your mental health. You try to deal as best as you can. Even the system we work in looks down on showing your weakness.
@@clancydecreegmail Thank you for responding. My late Father was on dialysis for 3 years prior to his passing. Medical professionals like yourself kept my Father alive for those 3 years, and I will always be grateful for that…❤️🙏🏻✝️
@@AnitaBetterScreenname I can only imagine…there are things you see , and hear from patients, that you can’t get out of your mind. I’ve watched true crime documentaries, and shows about disasters,accidents ect…they can hit you pretty hard. Treating a victim of a gunshot or a bad accidental up close and personal has to take a toll on a person. If you internalize everything,then eventually it wears you down. I’m just speculating, and offering my perspective.
Even ER EVS workers can be traumatized also . It’s a lot when u have to clean up the aftermath. Cleaning up things like big puddles of blood, brain matter, and sometimes the contents of the stomach. It’s definitely not a job for the weak.
My cousin was a surgeon in the Army. He received his training on how to treat gunshot wounds by working in the ER in Los Angles.
Yeah the military likes to train their surgeons in LA, Chicago, and Detroit. Good way to get a lot of exposure without your military residents having the added stress of being killed themselves
As a retired nurse that once did adult and pediatric trauma it is an experience you never forget.
Agree, I worked in adult trauma and critical care for 36 yrs.
Amen!
When the doctor said …………..but when a mother loses a child there’s no name for that, it hit my heart hard. So so sad
A mother never stops being a mother,even if the child/children are no longer on this earth.A very sad situation that does not have a name.😢
It did for me as well.
It is very sad,one of the worst things that can happen to a parent.When are you not a parent?when you don't have a child,they say.But if you have given birth or fathered(or raised) a child you are a parent and then that child dies,you are not a parent because you don't have a child,but you are a parent because you had a child,it's like a limbo,what are you?
Can’t the father lose a child too? Why is it just the mother
I lost my son to gun violence and this statement is so true!!
As someone who survived being shot, the aftermath is by far the worst experience.
Where you get shot ?
@@OneshotMovement In my stomach.
@@WrabrenBrawner47 thank goodness you’re alive. I can’t imagine how frightening that must have been. Your poor mother too. ❤
@@pommiebears Thank you for the concern 😃😃
5 gunshots here. Chest, abdomen and arm. Physically you heal, but the emotional aftermath is forever. Peace to you brother, it does get better ❤️🩹
My ex is a trauma surgeon . She used to tell me that the worst part of her job was coming out of the OR ,walking up to a woman that's she's never met before ,and telling the woman that despite the extraordinary efforts of the OR team , they couldn't save the life of her 16=year old son
Your ex knows what a bullet does. It’s not just a piece of metal, the velocity rips through bodies, creating horrible damage. I have had to walk past family members waiting outside the OR, knowing their loved one is deceased, and knowing someone, not me, has to tell them. To ruin hope….is the hardest thing.
I can’t believe I survived being shot 14 times and was able to pull through. Seeing this gives me an insight of what was happening before I arrived at the hospital.
Hard to find the appropriate words except congratulations to your new life. Wow.
@@ENDEVRDocs thank you very much. Had to spend over 11 months in the hospital and my stay was quite uncomfortable but I did get used to it after a while. I’ve been out for a little bit more than a year but I’m now in so much debt it’s crazy to think about.
Why were you shot 14 times?
@DailyTv22 you're the whole dollar then if 50 cent got hit 9 times and you got hit 14. But on a more serious note, glad you're ok 👍
@@callanmurphy9807 thank you. I’m also grateful to still be here.
That lovely lady who got shot and saying how it changed her life and being single
mum made me cry . And you can’t just assume that everyone that gets shot is bad because that’s the life they lead , and that doesn’t matter anyway as we are all human beings
It DOES matter
Bring back morality, too many single mums.
@@laurastuart3814you do get that it was her HUSBAND who shot her and THAT'S literally the reason why she's a single mother now, do you??? You're damn ignorant! Keep your ignorant comments to yourself
@@laurastuart3814 For the love of money, some "single" moms are single by choice!
“1 in 7 gunshot victims in Philadelphia are paralysed” 😳😳😳 That’s absolutely nuts
So sad 😞 Philadelphia area has the best physical rehabilitation but such gun violence
And Philadelphia voters keep voting in the same depraved politicians that enable it…
Absolutely Nuts!
Years ago, I was living in Philly and I had to go to the Temple ER for something like … incredible stomach pain or something comparable … I was in great discomfort but nothing life threatening. Anyhow after sitting in the Temple ER waiting room for several hours I finally got up and asked “hey any idea how long it might be until I’m seen” and the woman replied “there are people back there with gun shot wounds and we have to deal with the most urgent first.” That shut me right up. Put things in perspective. Never forgot how she said “people” aka more than one person.
This Doctor's Empathy is Beautiful. God Bless all the Doctors and Nurses are first responders.
We are so fortunate to have professionals like those depicted in this documentary. May God bless each and every one of you!
I could not do these jobs at any level. From the police fire or EMT responding to the ambo driver to the nurses doctors and other hospital staff to the people who clean the ER rooms. Respect to each and every one of you
jagged6373 - Amen ❤️💯
🙏🏽
Having been a nurse for a very long time, I love how they introduce themselves and their title. Sending prayers to everyone involved in the healthcare industry
This was a very well made documentary. Thank you for bringing a different perspective to this issue.
As a nurse who has taken care of a 3 yr old who suffered a gunshot to his head from an unsecured gun I’m appalled.
I was tearful watching this
*BAD Things OnLy HaPPen to Those who have ReJected the Lord Jesus!!!*
*Just Look at Me!!! I Know Jesus & I am Doing just Fine!!!!*
Shootings in suv's target areas have decreased by 53%?! I started crying when I read that. That is huge, powerful change. So grateful y'all are hittin' the streets to better everyone's lives. Wow. A huge thank you to everyone caring for and improving people's lives that have been touched by gsw violence. Stay safe out there. 🕉️
I think you meant to write decreased.
@@tech35641 🤦🏽♀️ Yes! thank you for the correction.
@@sydneymomma11 You're welcome. Have a great day!
@@tech35641 You as well, thank you!
Thank you for this video. I have been shot 7 times including a headshot. And I try to speak to the youth on a daily basis. This is really eye opening. Let’s save the youth.
People been 'speaking to the youth' and holding 'stop the violence' rallies since the 80s. It's not working
My son is 22. He suffered a GSW to the face/head and survived as well. He was 19 years old. I've been caring for him for 3 years. I owe those trauma surgeons everything.
You're like the young man in the video, taking a tragedy and turning it into something positive. Bless you for your efforts. ❤️🙏
@@andreamason50I wish you and your son all the best. ❤️
Keep them away from gangs.
I worked many years in the prison system. Now I work for the courts. I have also worked in the industry selling firearms. My boyfriend was shot several times and has to live with the damage every day. As a owner of firearms I will say it is very conflicting because the responsible ones understand how they can absolutely save your life and protect your family. On the other hand you see the damage they can cause in the wrong hands. Education and gun safety just doesn't seem like enough. We need better laws and a way to fix the systemic issues that are creating the violent environments to begin with. Poverty, gangs, drugs, untreated mental illness, unemployable adults, a lack of resources, domestic violence.......it's so much deeper than just guns. It's what's driving people to use them in the wrong ways.
Agreed. The issue doesn't stop at the gun, it goes so much deeper than that into the psyche of the hurt person pulling the trigger. Nobody wakes up one day and decides to kill someone else for literally no reason.
You couldn't have explained that any better.👍🏾
And it as well is this government that's divided Americans that don't agree with there views remember when as Americans we could disagree and was still united in our country now this so called government of ours have made sure we don't Remember those days ,what I'm trying to say is our own government plays a big part in this problem with violence, they pit us against each other ever day to achieve their goals
@@geneeldridge6200I don't believe that the government is much at fault with black young men shooting black young men..
I was shot in the 90s in watts I give credit to the trauma team. They saved my life ❤
My school was a victim of a school shooting this year. This documentary is so impactful. Thank you
I was shot in 2008. Wrong place wrong time. Literally shot at because supposedly the guys in that area had problems with some other guys and went looking for them. I happened to be in the area and because they couldn’t find them they wanted to send a “message” and shot everyone they saw. I was one. My ribs collapsed. And it tore through me. I survived but it’s a story I’m alive to tell. A terrifying one. I still get pains just from that day because whatever organs it tore through seems to have permanent damage. It contracts I assume and it balls up and it hurts so bad
FATHER GOD IN JESUS NAME RESTORE HEAL MAKE COMPLETELY WHOLE AGAIN IN JESUS NAME AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏
So sorry ! Hope you get better❤
@@debbiemanzonie1323It’s rare for me to find a wholesome comment or reply on TH-cam. Thank you for that ❤ God bless you
It’s insane how a small piece of metal can take a life
Well it’s because it explodes on impact.
And the bullet/shrapnel can bounce around the body and you can never be certain where it exited the body until at the hospital@@barbaravyse660
@@barbaravyse660 Regular bullets don't explode
Including a knife.
It’s a hot piece of lead core traveling over 835ft per second genius. Knife wounds are worse
Thank you doctors and nurses for caring for us ❤
RIP Mrs. Mitchel. She’d been shot while making dinner, and yet her aura of elegance and class was still felt by the treating doctors. She was beautiful.
The Dr that got shot is a real angel. He just seems like a good soul.
I was a medic in the FD and an air medic for a few years, retired from FD now, busy city and busy air ship I went to more shootings than I can count add that to the other calls I had run and it stays with you for life. The trauma doc and staff I worked with were some of the best.
Thank you for your service. I carry the memories of all my patients with me now that I am retired d/t becoming disabled.
@@lorenrobertson8039 Thank you and take care.
Thank you for making this and thank you to all who contributed! Please keep doing what you’re doing! Hopefully we see the day this world is a better place
JESUS IS COMING SOON
THEN THE TRIBULATION WHICH WILL OCCUR IMMEDIATELY AFTER GODS OWN ARE RAPTURED UP INTO HEAVEN.
DARKNESS WILL COVER TGE EARTH EARTHQUAKES FAMINES FLOODS FIRES COMPLETE & UTTER DEVASTATING DESTRUCTION WORSE THAN THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN OR WILL EVER SEE AGAIN & LAWLESSNESS WILL BE THEE WORST THAT HAS EVER BEEN ALSO.
READ MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 & 25.
YIU DO NOT WANT TO MUSS THE RAPTURE. IF WHEN JESUS APPEARS, & YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD & SAVIOR, YOU WILL NOT BE GOING UP IN THIS RAPTURE, YOU SHALL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION, BUT WHO WOULD WANT TO DO THAT?!
THOUGH DURING TRIBULATION YOU CAN STILL AT THAT TIME RECEIVE JESUS AS YOUR LORD & SAVIOR, SO THAT WHEN YOU DIE, YOU CAN BE SURE YOU GO TO HEAVEN......
SO, UNFORTUNATELY, TO YOUR COMMENT, ABOUT HOPEFULLY THE WORLD WILL VECOME A BETTER PLACE, THATS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL THERE IS THE NEW CITY.....
STILL NOT TO FEAR, JUST BE SURE TO GET SAVED.
Only when people realise that bad people have to be punished and not let back onto the streets to harm again.
RIP SADIE, imagine getting to 91 and dying that way, no wonder Dr Goldberg cried, it must have been devastating. Being in the U.K., this is shocking to watch, and I’m humbled by these wonderful men and women. What’s more shocking is the sheer number of fatalities? It’s a sad indictment of our society as a whole, that we cannot communicate, violence is like a horrible deadly reflex these days, that really doesn’t actually solve anything? Heartbreaking and awe inspiring at the same time. 😢💔
Don’t forget the crippling life changing medical bills these victims are left to endure as well as the physical changes! So sad
Do you really think the majority of the victims here care about medical bills? 😂
@@titsmagee4469 Why would they care, they dont have to pay for them!
@@titsmagee4469of course they do, after they survive they have to “survive.” There’s literally a guy in another comment who survived 14 shots and he mentioned how astronomical his bills are after the fact. Not sure what’s so funny.
It's time to show these videos in high schools. Gun violence awareness is the path to understanding every human life matters.
This comment needs to be pinned!!!!! 💯
High school is too late.
Kudos to the housekeeping staff of ERs for it is they who clean up the bloody aftermaths of people coming into ERs shot and bleeding out. As a nurse, we work as a team from the greeters/volunteers , nurses, doctors, social workers, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, OT therapists, speech therapists, nursing aides, housekeepers, kitchen assistants and so many more hospital employees that work behind the scenes. 👏🏼🙏🏼❤️
Great video! My heart breaks for the mother and grandmother. No parent should have to bury their child.
And also, how messed up do you have to be in the head to justify firing a shotgun at an 8 year old?? Over firecrackers no less!
Its so painful to see this devestation. As a nurse in Norway I have not seen any gunshut wounds (been a nurse for 3 years). And maybe I never will. Im grateful for that
You are lucky you don't have 'that culture' in your country. Although I hear your neighbors are importing it and paying the price badly. Keep them out!
You are very fortunate to live in a decent, civilized country.
WOW! 😭 As a woman @ 55 yrs of age this program is so traumatizing. I thank God I haven't personally experienced anything like this. Yet I hear stories every day. ENY is crazy I grew up there and learned more here than realistically living it. To know that the hospital door receives the one after another my hat goes off to all of the staff. That alone is PTSD for all you go through. God Bless You all.
god bless you as well. love to see more appreciation for the men and women of the profession. what they do is truly incredible
My older brother was shot with a 45. He was in a garage working on a car. He was shot in the back. He walked to the back door of the house. He opened the screen door. The woman that lived there opened the door. He said help me then let go of the screen door and layed on the lawn. They tried to do surgery but the blood was pouring out as fast as they were putting it in. It severed his aorta and went through his liver. He passed away at the age of 34. He left behind a wife and 3 children.
I’m sorry for your pain 💔🙏🏽
I'm so shocked. As I'm watching this when the doctor is telling the story of that lady killed by a lost bullet. Well, 2 nights ago, my house got hit with a lost bullet at around 3am. It came thru the kitchen window, it hit a chandelier bounce up in the air hitting the ceiling and bouncing back to the floor cracking the kitchen tile.... I'm really scared and glad that nobody got hit.
As someone who specializes in trauma medicine, I couldn't speak more highly of this short documentary. It depicts the reason why someone like myself would chose a career in trauma medicine over all others. It's the ability to save someone's life right in front of you. And all too commonly, the horrible lows that also come with it. Lastly, just wanted to say how impressed I was with the SUV team. That's something I will bring up and promote along my career in trauma medicine
thank you for your work. the service you do for the community is invaluable :)
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This documentary is too close to home. I work at a trauma 1 hospital & I’m part of the surgical team & our team is responsible for cleaning & sterilization of all the surgical instruments the trauma team uses. This is real and very exhausting. Every family matters in these traumatic events
Looking at the photos of blood everywhere made my think about the people who have to clean all that up and what a hard and absolutely vital but underappreciated job that must be. I can't even imagine trying to wipe all the blood off all the nooks and crannies of the nearby equipment
When you lose your parents, part of your past is gone, when you lose a child part of your future is gone, when you lose your sibling you lose both part of your past and your future, death really leaves an empty space.
Empty 😢
When a mother loses a child,it’s called forever incomplete
My brother was shot 6 times in the chest and neck 25 years ago. He spent 4 years in a wheel chair and now is still paralyzed. He's a family man and far away from that life. He went to the parole hearing after 10 years of guy who shot him. He asked he be let free and said he was ok and wanted him to do well now. That life has nothing but misery.
Wow. Blessings to your brother ❤
My heart goes out to the medical trauma unit. I feel your guys' pain for the government to tell you guys to stay in your lane. They are dead clueless. Gun violence is no joke. Again, thank you for your service
I can’t even describe how it felt when the gentleman asked if they knew someone who had been shot & resonated with it. My brother was shot years ago & the way it effected him was heartbreaking
@7:30 he calls it a scourge of gun violence. Reality it's a scourge of gang violence. And if it shows cities all ran by Democrats with some of the tuffest gun laws, it's not the guns it's the situation, it's the gangs and how they operate.
Thank you to all the trauma staff and everyone else behind the scenes. May God protect you 🙏
This document is an eye opener. I used to nurse here in the uk,but I’ve never seen a gun shot wound. This is fascinating in an educational way. The medical team all do an outstanding job and don’t get enough recognition. ❤
To anyone reading this remember before you use that gun for anything so petty as revenge, or A life of crime. You won't get away with anything in this life, and the next.
to anyone reading this, there's a solution: gun control. works 100% like in every single country it has implemented it.
ha, the impunity displayed in this life is because there is no ' next '. If the ' next ' was a fact then justice would not even be a concept in this existence. But if its this feeble fear notion that keeps you moral and considerate of others then just like religion its got a place i suppose.
@@JBSbass Well if this is all life has to offer all I can say is that there's got to be something better than this out there.
People get away with things all the time and you have no evidence of a next life. Playing make believe is not going to solve a pervasive problem.
@@aluisious
Correct
However, such beliefs do serve an evolutionary psychology purpose to prevent a sense of helplessness, and give meaning in a meaningless void.
The dawn of conscious awareness of cause and effect, of death made us insane.
That is the story of the apple in the garden of Eden.
I have worked EMS and at level 2 and 3 trauma centers as a nurse. I’ve always told my friends who don’t work in the field that there is war in our streets.
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It's amazing what doctors can do, I wish we did not need these skills. What they go through is heartbreaking. This is becoming normal on TV every day. This should never be normal.
Gun control. That is the answer. Every civilised country on earth has chosen this option except for the USA. The US is obsessed with war and killing. Injuries usually only seen on a battlefield are everyday occurrences in the US.
It's not tv, there are a lot more pressing issues that should be dealt with and a side effect of working on those would lessen stuff like this
I thank all the people who work their hardest to save lives. My uncle is an ER Physician. He's quite numb to things and the world after the things he's seen. He blessed me with an amazing childhood to see places around the world I would've never seen. Surgeons in Queens NY L.I.J. Hospital saved my moms life just prior to the height of Covid. Covid took my grandfather.
This is a very well done documentary. Sad.
Thank you for bringing these issues to the forefront.
My buddy is ex UK army.
He survived a 7.62 shot to the head... He's totally fine mentally, just blind in one eye. The bullet came out near his ear. He now has a plate in his head. They found the bullet in the padding in his helmet, So he has the bullet.
After getting shot he stumbled and stood on a landmine which removed his leg almost up to the knee.
He has more issues with the leg.
After the mine/ied. He saw the medic. .. ... ..... woke up in a military hospital.
The dude has the sickest sense of humour
God bless him 🙏 I'm keeping Him in my prayers and thanking God that he's still here
I’m English. My ex husband is ex army. Fusilier. He was in NI during the troubles. Never got shot, thankfully….. but it messed with his head regardless.
PTSD is real serious situation
What a hero!
At least some thug didn’t jump him
POOR GUY AND ALL LIKE HIM , WAS AND STILL BEING USED AS CANNON FODDER FOR THE POLITICIANS !!
This video NEEDS to be shown to ALL School aged kids, so they can learn at a young age to the damage bullets do and the lives it destroys...
I was a victim of a random act of gun violence and robbery a year ago and suffer a gsw strait face and exited my neck I’m so thankful to be alive today from fast response form police and paramedics and the staff at the hospital that help save me and took care of me my life have definitely change since then mentally and physically but by the grace of god I survived
This was a valuable teaching reaching the hearts of the victims , their families, and the skilled doctors, nurses and community members.
I’m a Radiology Tech, and have been one for 15 years, whaf I’d like to add is that many gunshot victims, especially those who become paralyzed often suffer immensely from repeated infections which can become fatal
I also like to add, the violence doesn’t stem from the weapons, it’s the absolute break down in cohesive family structures..
A firearm like anything is a fool and tools can be miss used
A very efficient tool for ending a life and carrying weapons in public means any argument can end in death
YES!!! BRAVO
That’s exactly how I feel about gun violence in this country , It’s a cancer we will never cure😢 Thanks to the entire trauma team for doing their best to save lives🙏🏾
'Gun Violence' which is caused by the political climate in the US. Stop Liberalism and Democrats and you will stop 'gun violence.'
As a med student in Europe we literally learned in the last surgery class that gun shut wounds are "something extremely rare" our head surgen himself only operated on them a few times thoughout his entire career. In foresic medicine they deal with them every now and then, but mostly when hunters commit suicide in our rural areas. I am glad this topic will not be important in my career. I
American culture is so gross.
Guess what...in most places in the USA gunshot wounds are pretty scarce. The problem is in certain large cities.
The US is a 💩 hole because of the gun fanatics. We have a Supreme Court that upholds the right to own a device that can make a firearm into a machine gun. I used to think it I was lucky to be raised here. I look at it as a curse now.
Yep just have to worry about all the knife and acid attacks. Also no one asked
@@mdmarkothe European mind can't comprehend nuance
My son was shot by a man kicked out of a bar bc he was being a jerk. as he drove off he opened fire and my son had just got out of his car. The bullet entered is butt cheek and went out the other butt cheek. centimeters away from his spine. His wound became superficial thank god he was not paralyzed. The shooter is still walking the streets. The system has done nothing to him yet.
@@lisaschmidt8642 Firstly, I am seriously ecstatic your son is alive. What trauma. When you have almost 400 million firearms in possession, it’ seems almost inevitable you’ll get shot. There’s the “right to bear arms” Isn’t it valid to live without fear of getting shot?
For those parents to be able to talk like that means they’ve seen it too much.
So sad, my son got caught up in the streets, I was a single working parent, he got shot and killed at 21, it's been almost 14 yrs, but this brought the pain back, guns are dangerous and deathly, I miss my son so much, how do we keep our son's safe from gun violence...🙏🙏🙏
@donnafeagin7535.. Keep them out the streets! But honestly, nobody is safe from gun violence..
Sorry for your pain! I lost a son too! 💔🙏🏽
This educational program, Cradle to Grave I think is what it’s called is an excellent start!! We need many many outreach programs to educate these children in alternatives to violence. Thanks so much for this video. Praying for all those affected by hun violence and the good healthcare workers that help them survive!🙏🙏
I HONESTLY ADMIRE HOW YOU ALL WORK TOGETHER, your passion is felt all the way in SOUTH AFRICA!!!! I wish we could have this one day 🙌
FELT that Doctor's frustration & PURE, UNADULTERATED hurt for the loss of Mother Sadie 😔💔
if that was my job, I would need a 3 month break after a single shift. kudos to those people fr
you did not mention suicide. my son shot himself in the head with a shotgun. he wasn't even 30 years old. No surgeon could have saved him. it's hard for me to live.
😢 susicolin that is just tragic. I am so sorry for your loss. I cannot begin to fathom how much that must hurt. I hope you find strength to keep going and to find peace.💔❤
I’m so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine losing a child.
I’m so sorry for your monumental loss. I can tell you this, your son is not far away, just in another room. You’ll see him again. Have you dreamed of him yet? They visit in our dreams. He is no doubt in peace. For some people, life is painful. Please hold on. 🙏🏽
Please don’t give up. Your life is important and you are needed in this world. I hope you can do something in honor of your son…
I'm sorry for your loss you're in my prayers 🙏
As a hunter, I have seen what a hunting round can do to a deer.
Dad taught me I was responsible for every bullet I fired.
To never point a gun at another human unless my life is in danger…..or I am 100% justified to shoot.
A gun is a tool. Any tool can be abused.
We need education, anger management help, and mental health help.
If I hear bullets flying, I am hitting the dirt, not getting out a camera.
Folks, guns can be good (stop bad people and save a good person).
But waving a gun around or celebrating by firing randomly around in the air is 100% careless.
I 100% support lethal force to stop such person.
Also, I believe if you kill some one out of malice (exceptions is self defense, protection of someone else, war, and 100% pure freak accident) that person will wait for you on the other side to get their revenge.
There is no such things as a “stray bullet”. It’s a person being 100 an un-responsible 🤬.
That said, I loath machine guns. Worthless for hunting.
So many stories of my 16 years in the OR and 4 in post surgery. Sad stories, Blessings, and miracles. 😢
I love seeing these intelligent and educated people doing what they can to help make their communities and their lives better and safer. I wish that documentaries like this were shown in schools so that children can see that their lives may lead them to things like owning a gun and even using it, but they can see that if they change the way they see themselves and their world around them, they can be something more than just being surrounded by gun violence and other things that will ruin their lives.
Where are the documentaries that focus on the parents that are birthing these thugs, gang members, mass shooters, etc?
We label these tragedies as "gun violence" but we never label them as "poor parenting."
Oh, I forgot, we wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
The focus needs to expand and change and change will only happen when it starts at home.
No such thing as "Gun violence" we have violent people.
This is the question no one wants to address. It's easier to blame an inanimate object rather than focusing on the root cause.
Go Make one. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Please tell me what Dr. Savak's parents did wrong so their son was shot in the throat at a playground after a football game? He's a trauma surgeon now, so make that make sense. There's a limit to what families can do. That's why we have governments.
Look in the mirror..🎉
I wish people really understood the severity of GSW. As a forensic investigator and seeing a patient come from trauma to the morgue so we can perform autopsy is a different kind of reality. Kudos to these all these medical professionals
They are the miracle teams. Cool, organized, multi talented team, diverse thinking about the possible ways the trauma has injured the body, non discriminatory judgement, fully invested in saving the patient. These are teams that believe this job is about the patient and their future. Important to note is that these teams live a life of continuing education and training to improve. My admiration and hopefully along with those patients and families that have experienced this type of devastation realize how lucky they are to have received this kind of support.
Oh my gosh if they survive the medical bills they must be facing. 😢
Medicare/Medicaid will pay for it . . .
We are blessed to have such amazing people willing to give us part of their lives
My father was shot in 1993. He survived because of the man and woman in ER trauma centers who fight against all odds to keep a patient alive. These types of documentaries should be show in schools.
This is absolutely heart-rending. Absolutely, totally heart-rending.
How you could go through that day after day has to be heartbreaking and a drain on your soul I'm not there but it makes me cry I'm crying with you
I say hats off to all paramedics, doctors and nurses. They face scenes on a daily basis that I cannot imagine. If I was paralyzed from the neck down I am not sure I would want to remain living. Keep it safe y'all.
Amazing how many comments are from people who have survived being shot! Only in the USA. My condolences. I deeply respect these healthcare workers. I hope they get all the mental health support they need. I couldn’t do what they do and not just because I don’t have the training. I don’t have the fortitude.
My heart breaks for the parents that have lost children to senseless violence!
RIP Sadie Mitchell ❤
My uncle was a victim of a crime. Shot in the back/neck on Fourth of July 4th 1990 in Coney Island Brooklyn NY. He was paralyzed and ultimately died on Sep 29 2022 from complications of his GSW years later.
He watched a guy get robbed and the robber left and came back realizing my uncle saw everything and he ended up shooting him in the back of head/neck to eliminate the witness.
Manner Of Death was declared Homicide even 32 years later.
I am so sorry
I wish all hospitals had doctors and nurses like this. You can really tell how much they care about their patients. My local hospitals are not like this at all.
What a fantastic programme, with wonderful people, who treat and care for those in need, as well as those trying to make a difference. Very sad, but also uplifting.
I did 15yrs as a Fort Worth Cop. 12 yrs Military, Iraq Vet. Gun shot wounds, stabbings, major accicents....
Being at the ER seeing this in person, these Doctors & Nurses are heros and just Epic! I respect them so much. I will never forget the 10 yr old child ripped apart by a drive by shooting. He was saved!