478 - A Trauma Surgeon and Shooting Survivor Speaks Out: How to Make This Moment a Turning Point for Gun Violence
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Dr. Joe Sakran is a Hopkins trauma surgeon and a survivor of gun violence, giving him a unique perspective on this heavy moment in history. He talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what needs to be done to effectively tackle the complex public health problem of gun violence, and how it will require moral and political courage to finally turn the tide on senseless tragedies.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience |
| 0:22.2 | to illuminate critical public health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please |
| 0:27.5 | send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhsu.edu for |
| 0:35.1 | future podcast episodes. Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer, Public Health on Call. |
| 0:41.3 | Today, Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon Dr. Joe Sackran joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about this moment and gun violence. |
| 0:48.3 | Dr. Sackran doesn't just take care of shooting victims. |
| 0:52.3 | He was once won himself. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's listen. |
| 1:01.5 | Dr. Joe Sackran, thank you so much for coming to talk with us on public health on call. |
| 1:02.5 | You are a trauma surgeon. |
| 1:06.4 | You have worked on gun violence issues for a very long time. |
| 1:08.6 | What have the last couple weeks been like for you? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, well, thanks so much, Dr. Sharfstein, for having me. And it's been a really tough couple weeks. |
| 1:14.6 | I think that, you know, when we continue to wake up in America day after day |
| 1:21.6 | and have to see these senseless tragedies happening, it's absolutely heartbreaking. You know, what we saw this past week |
| 1:30.8 | was essentially the slaughter of 19 children and two educators. And we know from a public health |
| 1:37.7 | perspective that this is preventable. Now, might help our listeners to appreciate your work |
| 1:43.6 | in trying to prevent gun violence death. |
| 1:47.6 | Could you give a brief overview? |
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