Jefferson quickly filled with shooting victims Saturday night and had to divert patients as they scrambled to take care of people shot on South Street. Doctors say the gun violence crisis is impacting the mental health of many in the community. StahlCBS3
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia hospitals were flooded with patients early Sunday after the mass shooting on South Street. Doctors say the public health crisis of gun violence is impacting the mental health of many in the community.
“We do try and coordinate with each other and EMS so that the hospitals can help each other through these kinds of events,” said Dr. Joel Fein, an emergency physician and co-director of CHOP’s Center for Violence Prevention, which focuses on the public health crisis of gun injuries. “Unfortunately, we have to do it again and again and again.”
“The hardest part will always be telling a family, a mother, a father, that their loved one has died. It is gut-wrenching,” Goldberg said.“How could anybody be quiet? Everybody should have a voice. Everybody should get outraged,” said Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight.
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