According to the focus group participants, a sense of alarm alerted a physician, and rang an alarm bell.
Although GPs are not always aware of their sense of reassurance, a sense of alarm alerts GPs and starts or re-starts the process of diagnostic reasoning: something does not fit in.
"We're always on a heightened sense of alert, we're aware that there could potentially be danger to ourselves or to the mosques.
"As you probably know, there is a heightened sense of alert among receivers of postal packages," the Half.com e-mail said.
"I don't know how we can get much higher a sense of alert," said Tony Lombard, public information officer with the Denver Police Department.
It can return you to your own existence with a sense of alert awareness that you wouldn't otherwise have without it.
The exact nature of the incident remained unclear, but it has highlighted the highetened sense of alert that exists throughout Europe and indeed the West in the days since the Paris attacks.
The intelligence that was acquired and shared by the intelligence community was not specific as to time and place, but should have been sufficient to prompt action to insure a heightened sense of alert and implementation of additional defensive measures.
"If everybody has a heightened sense of alert, we send a signal not only to America, but those who would terrorize us, those who are trying to disrupt our way of life, that we are on guard as a country".
The heightened sense of alert over security threats in the capital has done something else too: it has spawned a huge number of rumors about other actions the government may or may not be taking.
