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David Goldblatt, MD
Department of Neurology University of Rochester 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 673 Rochester, NY 14642

Arch Neurol. 1992;49(5):440-441.

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To the Editor.

—The editorial by Menken,¹ inviting readers of the ARCHIVES to contribute to a forthcoming issue on violence, provided an inadvertent insight concerning that topic. Menken referred to an article² in a British journal. The reference, as printed in the ARCHIVES, contained two typographical errors, making the title of the article "The Treatment of the Multiple Inured Patient in the United Kingdom."

Sometimes a typo is just a typo, but "inured" makes a trenchant comment on societies in which violence has become highly prevalent (here in the United States even more than in the United Kingdom): it is likely that there are, indeed, many (if not "multiple") patients who, before they themselves became surviving victims of violence, had been inured to violence.

The forthcoming publications by the journals of the American Medical Association may help to resensitize us readers to problems we have, regrettably, become quite . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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