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Example sentences for: gunshot

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The average cost of a gunshot wound that requires a hospital visit is $14,600 for emergency care and $35,400 for lifetime follow-up care.
Take the recent horror story in which Christopher Sercye, a 15-year-old gunshot victim, lay bleeding to death 35 feet from the door of a Chicago hospital while the staff refused to help, citing hospital policy prohibiting workers from leaving the emergency room.
Because, as the article points out, if there is no clear difference between now and the instant after now , then "how can we say if the gunshot caused the death or if the death caused the gunshot?"
Other characters are only shown reacting to the sound of the gunshot.
Another JAMA study, written up at the WP and NYT , calculates that the cost of treating the nation's gunshot wounds for a recent year, 1994, was $2.3 billion.