Citation

Leavitt S. Ann. Intern Med. 2018; 169(1): 64.

Affiliation

Newton, Massachusetts (S.L.).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American College of Physicians)

DOI

10.7326/L18-0166

PMID

29971417

Abstract

I read Taichman and colleagues' (1) editorial about the health toll of gun violence with interest. Physician advocacy and patient education are of course the responsibility of clinicians. However, given the intransigence of the U.S. Congress in passing needed gun safety legislation, I believe that physicians should also use our considerable economic clout to reward states with sane gun laws (for example, those with a score of C or higher from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence) and withhold our personal and professional dollars (by choice of conference location, investments, and the like) from rogue states with bad laws—laws that endanger their citizens and the country as a whole...

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