Doctors are firing back on Twitter with the hashtag “ThisISourlane,” sharing graphic and heartbreaking stories of treating gunshot victims in response to a tweet by the National Rifle Association[1] that chides physicians for being “anti-gun” and tells them to “stay in their lane.”
The NRA[2] tweet came hours before a gunman in Thousand Oaks, California, killed 13 people in the Borderline Bar and Grill and wounding 18 others. A little more than a week and a half earlier, 11 people were shot dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh — two of the latest instances of high-casualty mass shootings that have grabbed national attention and added to the debate of gun rights versus legislation.
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[3]
— NRA (@NRA) November 7, 2018[4][5][6]
In response, doctors and emergency physicians across the country took to Twitter posting photos of bloody-hospital room floors, stained scrubs and splattered face masks detailing daily ordeals of treating gunshot victims and the struggle of telling families when patients die.
“@NRA[7] says docs should “stay in [our] lane. My lane is a pregnant woman shot in a moment of rage by her partner,” Stephanie Bonne, a trauma surgeon at University Hospital Newark wrote on twitter.
“She survived because the baby stopped the bullet. Have you ever had to deliver a shattered baby?”
.@NRA[8] says docs should “stay in [our] lane.
My lane is a pregnant woman shot in a moment of rage by her partner. She survived because
