Gunshot wounds (GSW) to the penis represent a rare type of traumatic injury in the civilian United States population. Although small, single‐center studies have reported results of care for these types of injured patients, no national analyses ...
Still inaccurate – 1.7% of GSW patients are there for GSW to the penis (GSWP). By only considering patients, there’s a bias against GSWs where treatment was not sought. If a bullet grazes my shoulder while I was doing something I don’t want known to everybody, I might try to treat it at home. GSWP? I’m going to see a doctor, a real doctor, not somebody’s cousin who almost finished nursing training, an actual doctor, so the second wound ends up in the numerator and denominator while the first contributes to neither.
Still inaccurate – 1.7% of GSW patients are there for GSW to the penis (GSWP). By only considering patients, there’s a bias against GSWs where treatment was not sought. If a bullet grazes my shoulder while I was doing something I don’t want known to everybody, I might try to treat it at home. GSWP? I’m going to see a doctor, a real doctor, not somebody’s cousin who almost finished nursing training, an actual doctor, so the second wound ends up in the numerator and denominator while the first contributes to neither.