Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Statement on Structural Racism, and the Deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
² Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
³ Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Health - NYU Winthrop Hospital, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Acute Care, Burns, and Emergency Surgery, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Editorial

Mark H Hoofnagle et al. Ann Surg. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;272(6):911-914.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004430.

¹ Department of Surgery, Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
² Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
³ Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Health - NYU Winthrop Hospital, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Acute Care, Burns, and Emergency Surgery, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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