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Is Boston more dangerous than Uganda?

I apologize for the long silence - between a broken thumb, an out-of-country husband, a baby having serious medical issues... I got behind in pretty much everything! The Boston Marathon bombing hit close to home. As a resident physician, I worked the medical tent at the marathon.  I expected heat/cold injuries, tendon injuries, dehydration... I would never have expected the medical tent to be transformed into a war zone medical tent.  I would have been shocked... traumatized... grateful to be present and helpful... my family would have been so worried about me... my family might have lived through a certain portion of grief just imagining what life would be like if I was several yards closer to the blast zone... When we moved our young family overseas, some people objected.  How could we put our children in danger by moving to AFRICA ?! We argued that the safest place to be is in the center of God's will. No, not physical safety necessarily.  God doesn't guarantee phy