How do gunshot victims manage pain without health care? This paper examines this question through ethnographic data of a single gunshot victim who self-medicated with Percocet. The observations for this paper were collected in Philadelphia between January of 2010 and October of 2011, and were part of a larger ethnographic study that included 40 gunshot victims recruited from an outpatient traum...

With the high level of crime in the Western Cape, the state hospitals have witnessed a tremendous increase in the incidence of gunshot injuries. The Groote Schuur Trauma Unit sees between 70 and 120 gunshot injuries a month. Many of these involve the musculoskeletal system, and some the spine. This is in stark contrast to the European experience. Of 34 903 trauma cases seen in Scotland over 28 ...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively evaluate the safety and accuracy of physical examination in determining the management of stable patients with gunshot wounds to the neck. DESIGN Prospective study of 59 patients with gunshot wounds to the neck. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-nine stable patients with gunshot wounds to the neck managed between December 2001 and August 2003. All patients had a physical...