Isolated, Targeted or Random?

We still like many medical persons:

• A Rush University Medical Center employee was critically wounded in a shooting near the hospital Monday morning.

  The employee, 23, was parked outside in the 600 block of South Paulina Street about 5:25 a.m. when a dark-colored car pulled up and someone inside opened fire, hitting her multiple times, Chicago police said.

  The employee, who was in the driver’s seat of a black Jeep SUV, was transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in critical condition, police said.

We always liked to think that certain areas and people were "off limits" to certain sorts of misbehavior. Doctors, nurses, firefighters, teachers, nuns and clergy, even a lot of social workers - they're stuck where they are because they're helping others. Unfortunately, the last few years of our careers disabused us of much of that sentiment, so we were forced to decide on a case-by-case basis who was deserving of sympathy or concern. 

That list got awfully small awfully quickly.