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Your doctor may soon ask you if you own a gun
July 20, 2018
Expect your doctors to start talking to you and your kids about gun violence.
AP/KIRO
In Washington, 682 people died of gunshot wounds in 2016. Suicides account for three-quarters of all gun deaths in the state.
Washington doctors say they plan to do more to prevent gun-related injuries and deaths, including asking patients whether they own guns and screening them for risk of using a gun in suicide.
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