Physicians and other health care professionals rally for gun safety

Doctors, nurses, medical students, and other health professionals across the country are rallying today against gun violence. At noon, members of the national group known as Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic, or SAFE, will stand in medical scrubs outside their respective hospitals for five minutes. The various SAFE chapters include Stanford, where the group was founded, as well as Harvard Medical School, NYU, and more than 45 other medical schools across the country. “SAFE is naming gun violence for what it is — a health threat of epidemic proportion — in order to rally the medical community to fight for the interests of our patients,” the organization’s mission states. Among the things that the SAFE chapters say they want to call attention to today is better firearm safety education for both patients and health providers.