Dr. Jaime Moreno of Chicago's Pilsen lost his younger brother to gang violence nearly 20 years ago. Today, he runs one of the city's busiest ERs.
The emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side is among the busiest in Chicago.
"There are times especially busy, warm weekends, where you just feel like you're working in a war zone," said Moreno. Just days before Christmas in 2003, his brother, Hugo Moreno. was in a car that was shot at near 18th and Wabash in the South Loop. They crashed as the sped away. Hugo died at the scene. Hugo was 21. Jaime was 24.
"They show you, they say hey, I was here when I got shot here," Moreno pointed to his arm. "We can either not say anything and just treat them, or we can try to say something. I think that's the beauty of my job. I have that opportunity to either plant a seed or reassure somebody or just try to get them thinking about something else. And if you never try you'll never know.
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