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By: Brianna Robles<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Gore has been a doctor in the Emergency Department of Kings County Hospital for over 20 years. He spends many days rushing to save lives and putting out the\u00a0fires caused by the violence on the streets of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

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Now, Gore garners\u00a0a new title as an author. He gathered\u00a0his experiences from his life at the hospital and on the streets to pen a book,\u00a0Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes On A Deadly American Epidemic<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which releases on May 7 (Beacon Press).<\/p>\n

Testifying\u00a0to the often senseless violence that occurs in front of our eyes, Gore is firm in\u00a0his belief\u00a0that the antidote to violence is to treat trauma first.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book itself was just a great extension of personal therapy, to maybe bring up some questions that other people might have,\u201d Gore tells BK Reader. \u201c[The book is] a way to really look at these problems that are somewhat age-old, but are somewhat new that have been taking place in our communities and hoping that there’s a way to create solutions for them in a way that can be more effective than what we’ve been doing in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gore is no stranger to the effects of trauma and violence many Black men grow up witnessing. He grew up in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn in the 1980s. In the book, he writes about his upbringing and first interactions with his neighborhood as a Black boy and now, a man.<\/p>\n

He is a witnesses to both sides of violence \u2014 as a doctor treating people in the aftermath and as a family member and close friend to those have succumbed to homicide. He uses these experiences to show compassion towards those he treats in the ER.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Robert Gore at Kings County Hospital. Photo: Brianna Robles.<\/p><\/div>\n

The book reveals\u00a0Gore\u2019s vulnerability,\u00a0as he shares stories of loved ones whom he has\u00a0lost, including his friend Willis and adopted brother, Angel. Both were victims of the violence and chaos urban life can sometimes bring to children and young adults, and Gore writes that part of the reason why he is dedicated to helping patients in the ER directly stems from his past.<\/p>\n

Gore describes himself as a conscious storyteller \u2014 since he uses storytelling when teaching his students in lectures or talking to other hospital staff.<\/p>\n

He didn’t realize there was a book to be written until he started writing down his encounters before and after his shifts to cope with the intense emotions he felt. Until he started writing, Gore said he didn’t realize how all the trauma he had been witnessing affected him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs physicians, as emergency personnel, we’re so used to providing solutions for other people and fixing other problems that we don’t go back and process the things that we’ve seen,\u201d explained Gore.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the traumas that we see in the emergency department or outside of the emergency department, in our neighborhoods, in our families, we tuck that stuff away and go \u2018Oh, we’ll come back to that later.\u2019\u00a0 My priority is to make sure that other people are taken care of and that we keep people alive, but we don’t come back to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Above all else, Gore wants readers to be aware of the patterns that impact our own behavior and of others. If we become more sensitive to this, we can treat the trauma associated with violence by first intervening and helping people become the best versions of themselves, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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