BALTIMORE — Dr. Thomas M. Scalea has had spent much of his long career as a trauma doctor witnessing the emotional toll on families from the city’s unrelenting violence.
“The walk down to a set of parents to tell them their kid’s not coming home again ... I can almost tell you the number of steps because I have had to do it way too many times,” said Scalea, physician in chief at the University of Maryland R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
“Them hoping I’m not going to say what I know I’m going to say, it’s actually impossible to convey what that’s like.”
