FierceHealthcare (8/7, Finnegan) reports leaders from several physician and public health groups, including the American Psychiatric Association, penned a letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine calling “for action to prevent gun-related injuries and deaths.” Co-author Patrice Harris, M.D. and others wrote, “We, the leadership of 6 of the nation’s largest physician professional societies, whose memberships include 731,000 U.S. physicians, reiterate our commitment to finding solutions and call for policies to reduce firearm injuries and deaths.” The letters urges several policies, including extreme risk protection order laws, or “red alert laws,” and “supporting the ability of physicians to advise their patients on issues that affect their health, including counseling at-risk patients about mitigating the risks associated with firearms in the home and firearm safety.”
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— “With one voice, 7 leading medical organizations call for action to prevent gun injuries and deaths, “Joanne Finnegan, FierceHealthcare, August 07, 2019