Earlier this week the National Rifle Association posted a tweet that criticized doctors for supporting gun control and advised them to "stay in their lane." Now the doctors are pushing back on Twitter.
Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves. https://t.co/oCR3uiLtS7[1]
— NRA (@NRA) November 7, 2018[2]
"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the NRA wrote in its tweet[3] on Wednesday. "Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves."
Since the NRA posted that tweet, medical professionals have taken to Twitter to let the powerful gun lobby know that #ThisIsOurLane.
I am a psychiatrist who trained in the US
I was trained to asked every single suicidal patient about guns before they went home
I saw countless patients with PTSD from gunshot wounds
I work in Canada now
I haven’t had a single patient with a gunshot wound#thisisourlane[4]
— Dr Javeed Sukhera (@javeedsukhera) November 10, 2018[5]
Dear @NRA,
What should I tell my patient who has severe daily headaches for the past 9 years from the bullet lodged in her head. Doctors were unable to remove it because of the location. She had a restraining order against the shooter.#ThisISMyLane #ThisISOurLane[6][7][8]— Linda Girgis, MD (@DrLindaMD) November 11, 2018[9]
I’m going to guess you’ve never taken care of a patient who has
