I have been watching with great interest — and a very heavy heart — the news coming out of Fort Hood, Texas. As most of you are aware by now, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused of killing 13 soldiers and injuring 31 others in a shooting rampage that took place last week. What makes this tragedy so unprecedented is the role Hasan played in the military: He was a psychiatrist, a doctor placed in a position specifically to help other soldiers emotionally heal from trauma sustained in the war. As any mental health care practitioner knows, the first rule of our occupation is, at the very least, do no harm!

I think the Pentagon's former top doctor S. Ward Casscells captured it best when he said, "Our focus was on the doctors to dig deep and do all they can for these (troops). To have one of our own do this, is personally crushing."

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