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Parents trust health care providers on safety and injury prevention, but few discuss firearms

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Parents trust health care providers on safety and injury prevention, but few discuss firearms
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Kelsey Gastineau, MD, MPH



Polling data of roughly 1,000 Tennessee parents shows that, generally, many parents still have concerns about community violence and are open to conversations about firearm injury prevention strategies, like safe storage of firearms, with their child’s health care provider.



While they say they are open to those conversations, the polling data shows that many parents are not having them in this setting.



“Parents view pediatricians as trusted sources of informati

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