Joseph Sakran: Confronting Gun Violence

Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy Podcast · May 18, 2023 · 35m

Howie and Harlan are joined by Joseph Sakran, whose career as a trauma surgeon and advocate grew out of his own experience with gun violence. Harlan discusses his new study enumerating the vast scale of excess deaths among Black Americans; Howie reports on improvements in the insurance rate, nearly a decade after the Affordable Care Act went into effect.

Links:

Harlan Krumholz: "Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Among the Black Population in the US, 1999-2020"

"Shot in the neck at 17, this is the trauma surgeon now leading doctors against gun violence and the NRA"

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