Thursday, March 23, 2006

Gunshot wounds are common in Philadelphia, so our "world renowned" surgeons get lots of practice



The doctors huddled over the boy, making futile attempts to save him.

He was 14, and he'd been shot in the eye.

Linda Lennstrom, a 28-year-old surgery resident from Sweden,
stood off to the side at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania last week as doctors lifted the boy's slender limbs, looking for wounds. She was watching one of the few gunshot victims she is likely to see in her career.

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