Violence against physicians. Societal aggression worsens an occupational hazard.

Headlines and news reports raise the alarm: "Last month's shooting of three emergency physicians in Los Angeles has triggered renewed physician concern." "Physician David Gunn, 47, of Eufala, Ala, was shot three times in the back on March 10, 1993, when he arrived for work at the rear of a Pensacola abortion clinic." "A man who police say confessed to killing a plastic surgeon and a hairdresser told a judge he was angry about people 'diluting the Aryan beauty.'" "Yale professor is injured by blast; mail bomb tied to terror in '70s."