Citation

Geiderman JM. Acad. Emerg. Med. 2002; 9(3): 223-231.

Affiliation

Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department, Burns and Allen Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. geiderman@cshs.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11874788

Abstract

Individual physicians as well as the medical establishment were complicit in a wide range of activities carried out by the Nazis during the period that encompassed the Holocaust. This article examines these activities and lists eight moral failures attributable to physicians of this era. The accompanying article reviews the ethical pitfalls encountered by German physicians during the Nazi era and examines them in relationship to current issues. It also explores the role of professionalism then and now. In particular, ethical issues presently confronting emergency physicians are examined through this prism.

Language: en