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When Toronto kids get shot, this ER team steps in

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One in five kids who are victims of community violence will return to the emergency room within a year. For St. Michael’s Hospital’s THRIVE team, that’s a clear sign we need to focus on prevention. Dr. Carolyn Snider, middle, leads the THRIVE team and is seen with Coach Co-ordinator Sarah Rogers, left, and Research Program Manager, Jennifer Dekker, right. Dr. Carolyn Snider first met the teenage boy on rotation as a resident in the emergency department of Sunnybrook Hospital. She remembers how pleasant the conversation was compared to the task at hand: Sewing up a complex laceration in the boy’s arm from a stab wound. At 15, he was able, she said, to break down a lot of barriers between them in just the time it took to close the wound. Three months later, now assigned to the hospital’s trauma unit, Snider was sad to watch the same boy wheeled in — this time, suffering from gunshot wounds that had paralyzed him. Over the next month, they spent more time together, with her in charge of t

Home News GTA One in five kids who are victims of community violence will return to the emergency room within a year. For St. Michael’s Hospital’s THRIVE team, that’s a clear sign we need to focus on prevention. "/> Dr. Carolyn Snider, middle, leads the THRIVE team and is seen with Coach Co-ordinator Sarah Rogers, left, and Research Program Manager, Jennifer Dekker, right. Richard Lautens/ Toronto Star By Jennifer Pagliaro Crime Reporter Dr. Carolyn Snider first met the teenage boy on rotation as a resident in the emergency department of Sunnybrook Hospital. She remembers how pleasant the conv

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