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QJM 2004 97(11):771-772; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hch122
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QJM vol. 97 no. 11 © Association of Physicians 2004; all rights reserved.

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Our twins are now aged five, and have just started at school. The massacre of schoolchildren at Beslan in southern Russia, coming just a week before, unnerved us. We have tried to protect our children from hearing too much about these deaths, and so we have taken care to listen to the news out of their hearing. It is not the first time we have had to think carefully about delaying their exposure to such knowledge. It was only recently that our son went up to the old family photos on the wall of my study and asked me who the people in them were. ‘My mummy's family, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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