Abstract
If assaulted again I shall be reluctant to fight back. I now know that I can't defend myself very effectively anyway. The risks of severe personal injury are great if knives or other weapons are wielded. The ego trip of foiling a robbery or the deterrent effect of failure on those trying to commit a crime is not worth the risk. It is too easy to apportion all the blame for crime statistics on to social, financial, and environmental factors. A glance at any newspaper underlines the fact that man is a violent and primitive animal and is likely to remain that way. Misfits, as arbitrarily defined by the society of the time, will always tend to congregate together and the stronger will always prey on the weak. Inner city general practice is the most exciting and depressing, stimulating and humbling, rewarding and heartrending experience that I know. The News of the World encapsulated this experience with its slogan All Human Life is Here and who picks up the Guardian, the Telegraph, or The Times when the News of the World is lying around?
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