Aurora, CO —The Batman Massacre and the statistics everywhere demonstrate that gunshot wounds are now fatal less than 10% of the time. The Viet Nam War and thousands of ghetto shootings have given medical providers the experience necessary to really save our lives. Gunshot wounds are puncture wounds that self-seal because of our elastic skin and tissue. Knife wounds are far more complex because blood vessels remain wide open from the cutting. I know this only too well from my days as an Army medical corpsman. Taking care of victims of violence is really like being a plumber. You must quickly stop the leaks and replace the lost fluid through IV infusion. That’s where the EMTs come in. Once at the hospital X-Rays are taken and any wounds to the chest or abdomen must be opened and the damage repaired with quick and skillful fingers along with sutures. Sometimes bullets can remain inside your body inflicting less trau...
