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Hospital Trains Focus On Ending Cycle Of Violence

by Allison Keyes, NPR
August 18, 2010

Hospital emergency rooms are filled with the fallout of violent crime. Sometimes, the victims and the perpetrators are one and the same. It's a cycle of violence many would like to end. At the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, doctors and others have developed an outreach program that appears to be working, and it has been modeled by others.

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  • All Things Considered, August 18, 2010
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