American College of Physicians announces initiative to address firearm injury and to speak with patients to keep them safe
SAN DIEGO, April 27, 2023 – The American College of Physicians (ACP) today announced a new initiative to help internal medicine physicians address firearm injury and violence as a public health issue and to provide strategies to help keep patients and their loved ones safe. Firearm violence kills and injures tens of thousands of Americans every year, injures so many more, and has devastated communities across the country.