"Abuse of power is a risk inherent in being a physician."

http://www.ima.org.il/FilesUpload/IMAJ/0/41/20536.pdf

Isr Med Assoc J. 2012 Sep;14(9):532-4.

Reflections on the Nuremberg declaration of the German medical assembly.

Shmuel R.

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Faculty Development Unit, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Safed, Israel. reis@netvision.net.il

Moreover, the realization that an almost entire scientific and medical establishment, arguably one of the most preeminent of its time, and many of its leading practitioners and scientists were involved in the absence of coercion, makes it impossible to turn a blind eye to the fact that it could have happened, and could happen again, elsewhere, even to us and even here. Abuse of power is a risk inherent in being a physician. Jewish
and Israeli physicians are not immune. We would be wise to analyze the events and processes of the Third Reich not just as atrocities that were committed by them, but also as a threat that we need to immunize ourselves against.