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Well, they ask you, am I going to die?

And what do you say?

I tell them no.

None of us expect to be injured.

None of us expect to be in a car crash.

Certainly none of us expect to be shot.

None of us expect those things to happen, but I know they do.

We had four young men, all the victims of gun violence, who passed away in one evening.

And, you know, four times that evening I had to walk out and tell the families that they

had lost their 20-year-old son to violence.

And I had a young resident with me, probably 32 years old, and by the third or fourth time

that night I just couldn't make him go out that last time with me to talk to those

families.

Here are three of the country's most experienced trauma surgeons, who sat down with us to speak

frankly about what happens when someone is shot.

I'm Phoebe Judge.

This is criminal.

What happens when you hear that someone's coming in with a gunshot wound?

Will you take me through the whole process?

Yes, almost places have the whole chain sort of set up, right?

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