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Scoop and Run: How Should Gunshot Victims Get to the Hospital?

The Pie: An Economics Podcast·Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago·18 August 2026·31 min

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When a police officer is shot, is it safer to wait for an ambulance or to be driven straight to the hospital in a squad car? In this episode of The Pie, Prachi Sanghavi, an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago and co-director of the Health Policy Data Lab, discusses new research tracing how shooting victims across 18 U.S. cities reach the hospital, and what it reveals about a decades-old debate over pre-hospital care.