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Destinee Adams

'We created this problem': a pediatric surgeon on how gun violence affects children

Dr. Mikael Petrosyan, associate chief of general and thoracic surgery, poses for a portrait in his office at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2023. (Eric Lee for NPR)

Treating gunshot wounds on children was not what Mikael Petrosyan expected when he entered pediatrics.

Petrosyan has been working as a pediatric surgeon at the Children's National Hospital for more than a decade, and he has treated many children injured by guns.

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