Doctors Are Outraged After NRA Tells Them to 'Stay in Their Lane' About Gun Violence

That tweet set off a firestorm of responses from doctors and nurses who say that, as first responders, the issue of gun violence is one they’re familiar with. The hashtag #ThisIsMyLane began trending over the weekend.

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“If it’s my job to locate the 15 shotgun pellets in my 3 year old patient’s abdomen, it is my job to try to prevent gun violence,”Jessica Boat Landry, a pediatrician from Houston, Texas, responded. “This is a public health crisis, let’s work together to study and solve it!”

Some of the medical professionals responded angrily.

“Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane,”tweeted Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist. “It’s my f—ing highway.”

“I’ve ruined scrubs from blood,” tweeted nurse practitioner Jennifer Corrigan. “Wiped off grey matter from my arms. Ran a level 1 with units of blood too [numerous] too count. I’ve held the hands of family members when they were told their loved one is dead.#ThisISOurLane

An ER physician from Sacramento who has served in the military also weighed in on the controversy — and attached a photograph of herself in her Army uniform.

Mahua Dey, who identified herself on Twitter as a neurosurgeon,on Monday shared a photoof a bullet she said she had removed from a 6-month-old’s brain — and that the child did not survive the gunshot.

“@NRA you created my lane!” Dey wrote.

The NRA has not publicly commented about the backlash to their tweet.

source: people.com