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MICHAEL E. JOHNS, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118(6):573.

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Poverty, greed, too many people, the right to bear arms (anyone and everyone), addiction, hopelessness, mental illness, genetic propensity, media bombardment. We're on the bullet train to Entropy!

Violence plagues our nation. Society suffers. The Journal of the American Medical Association is devoting its June 10th issue to the subject of violence. In the pages that follow you will find commentaries by Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer, Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, Baltimore Sun reporter and author David Simon, American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery President Richard Holt, MD, and several articles by our colleagues addressing this most pressing and disturbing issue.

Violence takes many forms. The murderer, the rapist, the robber attack the individual. Another kind of violence, one not so obvious, attacks the whole of humankind. Air and water, the essential elements for existence, are being polluted at a staggering rate. What we dump into our land . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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