Dr. Brian Williams says “we do not just have a gun violence problem in the United States. We have many gun violence problems.” As a trauma surgeon, he’s seen those problems up close: suicides, intimate partner violence, homicides, unintentional shootings, and mass shootings. He asked himself, “How do I stop the flow of gun violence victims to the hospital? How do I work to eliminate healthcare injustice so that people can be healthy and thrive in their communities? I could not do that in the hospital. By the time they get there. It’s too late.” Which is why he decided to run to represent Texas in Congress.

Dr. Brian Williams joins Ali Muldrow on A Public Affair to talk about his new book The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.

Dr. Brian H. Williams is an Air Force Academy graduate, a Harvard-trained surgeon, a former congressional health policy advisor, and a nationally recognized leader at the intersection of public policy and structural racism, gun violence, and health equity. He has treated gun violence victims for more than two decades. Williams has served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine and as a professor of trauma and acute care surgery at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He is the host of the podcast, Race, Violence & Medicine.

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