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The article presents information on the role of a Shock Trauma in the drop in murder rate in Baltimore, Maryland. Statistics at Shock Trauma are impressive. The overall mortality rate — for violent and nonviolent trauma — dropped from 7 or 8 percent a decade ago to 3 percent today, and doctors there have accomplished this feat while seeing twice the number of patients, many with more severe injuries resulting from the increasingly widespread use of high-caliber automatic weapons. Only about 200 patients out of 7,000 treated die at Shock Trauma these days, versus about 200 deaths out of 3,500 patients a decade ago.