Saving Our Kids: An ER
Doc’s Common Sense
Solution to the Gun Crisis
In Saving our Kids: An ER Doc’s Common-Sense Solution to the Gun Crisis, Dr. Marc Gorelick, president and CEO of Children's Minnesota, unfurls a roadmap that everyone from pediatricians to the general public can follow. The key is taking a fresh look at the issue of guns through the lens of public health, leading the debate away from partisanship and toward reasonable policies that will save children’s lives.
All proceeds from the book will be invested back into Children's Minnesota gun violence prevention work.
A blueprint for change
Guns are the #1 threat to kids’ lives. We can create a safer world for them.
Expert medical insight
Dr. Marc Gorelick is the president and CEO of Children’s Minnesota and a pediatric emergency medicine doctor. His frontline experience gives him a unique perspective on youth gun violence as a public health issue.
A bridge to solutions
“Saving Our Kids” provides a pragmatic and non-partisan approach to addressing the most pressing issue facing American children today.
Create change
“Saving Our Kids” is a must-read for everyone who cares about children: parents, health care professionals, educators, policymakers and more. Together, this enormous group can make resounding change.
Guns are now the leading cause
of death for American children.
“Many of us feel helpless, and hopeless, about what guns are doing to our children... If this is how you feel, I wrote this book for you. If you abhor what you see, but don’t know what to do about it, I wrote this book for you. We do not have to accept the status quo. There is a path forward.”
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CHILDREN ARE KILLED BY GUN VIOLENCE EVERY DAY IN THE UNITED STATES
4,700
CHILDREN WERE KILLED BY GUNS IN 2021
200,000
CHILDREN SUFFERED GUNSHOT INJURIES FROM 2012-2021
News and blogs
News stories and articles from the Progressive Pediatrics Blog written by Marc Gorelick, MD, president and CEO at Children’s Minnesota, and author of “Saving Our Kids: An ER Doc’s Common Sense Solution to the Gun Crisis.”
About the author:
Dr. Marc Gorelick
Marc Gorelick, MD, is president and chief executive officer of Children’s Minnesota, one of the largest independent pediatric health systems in the United States. As a pediatrician, Dr. Gorelick spent 25 years treating children, including gunshot victims, in some of our country’s busiest pediatric emergency rooms. Dr. Gorelick holds an A.B. in history from Princeton University, completed medical school at Duke University and earned an MS degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Gorelick and his wife live in Minneapolis. They have two grown children.
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Book reviews
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“Dr. Gorelick has documented his personal journey, but more importantly, calls on us who might be on the “sidelines” to join him and others in combatting gun violence in the United States.”
Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Senior Injury and Policy Advisor, Comprehensive Injury Center
Medical College of Wisconsin
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“Dr. Gorelick’s call to action is timely. An all-hands-on-deck approach must be employed to solve this problem.”
Andrew Waititu Kiragu, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Associate Chief of Critical Care, Children's Minnesota
Pediatric Intensivist, Children's Respiratory and Critical Care Specialists
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
