Lauren Burgoon

Jul 4, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Lauren Burgoon |Charles Nozicka |Hussain Lalani |Justin Lowenthal

It’s become my morning ritual on the way to the hospital. Cruising down a main Philadelphia stretch, just as the road crests and the hospital becomes visible, I steel myself for the line. Is it going to be long today? In just a few more blocks, my second reflexive check-in: Are there news vans outside of the hospital? Both glances are woven into the larger story of Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic and how that epidemic is butchering the city’s children.