Some recent fatal attacks on mental health workers

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While experts agree the majority of people with mental illness are not violent, workplace violence has claimed the lives of several professionals in recent years, including:

— Dr. Wayne Fenton, renowned psychiatrist and administrator at the National Institute of Mental Health, whom a teenager with schizophrenia beat to death during an emergency visit at Fenton’s private office in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2006.

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