Zoe Maher, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, spoke with 6ABC about the potential live-saving advantages of “scoop-and-run,” when Philadelphia police take gunshot and stabbing victims to the hospital themselves rather than wait for an ambulance.
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