Understanding Urban Violence
John Rich founded the Young Men’s Health Clinic at the Boston Medical Center as a modest project with a big goal. “At that time, you could pretty much do anything as long as it didn’t cost anybody any money,” joked Rich, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men. Rich’s plan was to draw young African American male patients from other parts of the hospital — the surgery wards, the dermatology clinic, the emergency department — so that he could provide …
