Last week, after a 13-year-old student in Prince George's County became the eighth known target of a sniper's bullet, Martin Eichelberger, chief trauma surgeon at Children's National Medical Center, discussed the child's wounds and prognosis at a news conference.

Eichelberger spoke clearly enough to be understood by laymen. You can't always count on physicians to do that -- something that ER docs like myself know only too well.

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