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Unable to rely on lawmakers to regulate guns, some Tennesseans have decided to risk gun ownership

Jay Wellons has operated on kids' brains and spinal cords. He writes about the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a life in All That Moves Us. Originally broadcast July 2022.

Jay Wellons has operated on kids' brains and spinal cords. He writes about the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a life in All That Moves Us. Originally broadcast July 2022.

Jay Wellons has operated on kids' brains and spinal cords. He writes about the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a life in All That Moves Us. Originally broadcast July 2022.

Jay Wellons has operated on kids' brains and spinal cords. He writes about the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a life in All That Moves Us. Originally broadcast July 2022.

The University of Mississippi Department of English invited Vanderbilt’s Cal Turner Chair in Pediatric Neurological Surgery Dr. Jay Wellons as

Nearly 49,000 people died from gun violence in the U.S. in 2021, according to the CDC.

A new study has found that fatalities from gun violence in the U.S. have increased over time, with more victims dying at the scene of a shooting before they can be transferred to medical treatment facilities.

After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Dr. Jay Wellons fielded countless emails from his peers around the country expressing the hopelessness and frustration of “waiting and waiting” for victims of school shootings who never make it to the hospital. Now, less than a year later, Vanderbilt’s chief of pediatric neurosurgery reflects on what it ...