PHILADELPHIA — Since 1993, Amy Goldberg has been a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital, which has the distinction of treating more gunshot patients than any other hospital in the state of Pennsylvania. Last year, there were 747, up from 576 the year before.
Goldberg, a native of Broomall who went to the University of Pennsylvania and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, says she's treated thousands here, in rare cases those who have been shot on more than one occasion. And though Goldberg and Scott Charles, Temple's trauma outreach manager, over the last 15 years have started programs to advocate for and assist victims, educate school children about gun violence and train community members on how to provide first aid to gunshot victims, they have watched as the city's gun violence has escalated again this past year.
In the early hours of New Year's Day, after two were killed and 12 injured in three separate shootings — one of them near Temple's campus — Goldberg tweeted: "Last night was an abomination in our city. Our community is dying. Where is the outrage ... from everyone?"
