PHILADELPHIA -- How can we stop the violence in Philadelphia? One powerful program targets teens who may be heading down the wrong road.

The program is called From Cradle to the Grave: Life and Death in Temple University Hospital's Trauma Bay.

The aftermath of street violence is something most of us don't see. We don't see the teenagers who are shot, rushed to trauma centers and have their chests cut open as doctors work to save their lives.

That is part of what Temple's trauma outreach coordinator Scott Charles shows a group of Philadelphia teenagers who have been accused of, but not convicted of crimes.

To demonstrate to the teens how bad it can get, the trauma team used the case of Lamont Adams who was shot on 27th Street and was rushed to Temple University Hospital's trauma center.

Charles first showed the teens, on a volunteer, where Adams was shot.

"Lamont would have been shot there. He would have been shot there. He would have been shot there. He would have had bullet holes here and here. All in all, they found 23 bullet holes in this 16-year-old young man. This is his grandma's baby. This is Jenny Clark's baby," Charles said.

Next, trauma surgeon Amy Goldberg explained what was done to help Adams.

"This goes in the mouth. We find the windpipe, the trachea, this goes right in there so that we could then breathe for him because he's not breathing at all," Goldberg said. "So we had to take a needle like this and find a big vein and the big vein we found was in the groin. And then he lost his pulse. He was dead for all intents and purposes. To get his heart back, we had to open up his chest."

How does it look when Dr. Goldberg performs a thoracotomy with no time for anesthesia?

"We take a knife and we went between his ribs with the knife," Goldberg said. "To be able to get his heart out, we had to put this in called a rib spreader. His heart had five gunshot wounds to it."

The trauma surgeons at Temple University Hospital are first-rate, but Adams had been shot 23 times. Did he live or die? The answer can be found in part 2 of Cradle to Grave.