AMA offer programs on lesions we should learn from Nazi doctors.

Beginning in 2004,Tte AMA's Institute for Ethics and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. have offered a lecture series that examines Nazi Medicine and offers perspective on what can be learned from this dark (darkest?) chapter in medical history. A recent AMA newspaper editorial reports that the program has been presented to 12 med schools so far. All of the schools should sign up for this. I did not learn of the incredible behavior of many German doctors until long after I graduated from medical school and I heard nothing about it in college or high school. Here is the link for the AMA web site.CME credit may be obtained. The book " The Nazi Doctors" by Robert Jay Lifton give details of the behavior of individuals who were physicians in name only that is so chilling that I have no words to express the magnitude of the horror. The terrible things that have been done in the name of the "greater good " and the sacrifice of the individual to the collective and when individual responsibility is removed know no bounds.