I agree that has a lot to do with it. I would also be willing to wager that after 20 years of the GWOT, there have been advances in trauma medicine that have kept some people alive who would have previously succumbed to their wounds. It would be interesting to see the number of homicides vs. The number of attempted homicides.
“I agree that has a lot to do with it. I would also be willing to wager that after 20 years of the GWOT, there have been advances in trauma medicine that have kept some people alive who would have previously succumbed to their wounds. It would be interesting to see the number of homicides vs. The number of attempted homicides.”
What you note above re advances in trauma medicine might be a partial answer.
A few years ago my wife, who was a family practice RN for a major group for close to 3 decades, and we talked to a young former patient and his MD wife. They were interns in military medicine and had just finished a tour at one of the big ERs in Chicago.
They were headed to LA to do the same intern tour at the big county hospital. They shared some of their better reality
stories with my wife.
That was a decade ago and the ER skills are probably even better in most hospitals.