It was 1993 on a dry, beautiful day in Hollywood, California. I was a second-year
resident at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and was assigned to handle any traumas
that came through the door of our Emergency Department. That day it was 2-year-old
boy, a victim of a dry-by shooting where a bullet ricocheted into his brain. My job
was to stabilize the bleeding. Was this preventable? Was there something doctors could
contribute to addressing the problem of youth violence? Fast forward to 1999 on a
rainy damp day in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I was in the clinic and it was as
if I had new eyes—why did so many of my Latino patients suddenly look more overweight
and obese than the other children in my clinic. This is not just the introduction
of this new thing called the internet. What factors contributed to this? What can
we do to understand and intervene?
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: June 13, 2019
Accepted:
June 8,
2019
Received:
June 7,
2019
Footnotes
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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© 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Academic Pediatric Association
