FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- In the chaos of Memorial Regional Hospital’s trauma unit, surgeon Niqui Kiffin has removed bullets from a man shot multiple times while sleeping. She has operated on a college student who shot himself playing with a gun while FaceTiming his girlfriend. And she has operated on a Golden Beach police officer who took a bullet in the arm while on duty.
“When we hear all the stuff about guns and gun violence and gun safety, we really know the trauma it causes,” Kiffin said.
While the top source of emergency room patients remains auto accidents, gunshot wounds are gaining on them.
