Good and Bad Doctors

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

Dr. Mengele was by far the most feared SS Officer in the death camp of Auschwitz. His fellow Officers and inmates even gave him the nickname of the “The Angel of death”. As soon as Jews from all parts of Europe arrived at the platform, the first selection began. Men to the left, women and children to the right, and as they “arrived at the platform, they shouted for women

Being a doctor requires a lot of hard work and commitment to help others and look for the patient’s well being, but has it always been this way? In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, she claims in paragraph 4 on page 130 that doctors used to withhold information from patients just so they won’t deny the test being made, and this way obtain their wanted benefit. The author’s claim is supported by the events of the patients from jail, Henrietta’s autopsy, and Henrietta’s cells overall.

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye­wit­ness Account by Dr. Mik­lós Nyis­zlI is a non-fiction mem­oir of a Jew­ish Hun­gar­ian med­ical doc­tor who per­formed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. This book is a lot to swallow and doesn’t beat around the bush, it’s straight to the point.

     As a society we place those in the medical profession on a pedestal. They are people to be looked up to and admired. In many ways they are Gods, right here with us on earth. People put the hope and faith in doctors hoping they can perform miracles. Throughout history, doctors have indeed preformed many wonders. There were, however, some doctors that betrayed this belief and peoples trust. These doctors could be found in concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Dachau. These doctors committed unspeakable acts against the Jews and other minorities, believing that they were conducting helpful experiments. Following the holocaust, however, they were punished for their

While volunteering at St. John’s Hospital in Oxnard, California I had the opportunity to work alongside many allopathic physicians. Although many of these physicians were highly qualified, I always felt there was something missing. Shadowing Dr. Wolfsohn offered more than just a glimpse at physician related work and lifestyle. This experience allowed me to discover what I had seen missing in so many allopathic physicians. I call this missing piece, “the human side.” While working with Dr. Wolfsohn, I saw a repeating theme that strongly resonated with me. He treated the patient and not their disease. These patients received his methods well and appreciated his genuine concern as he treated them with dignity. In Dr. Wolfsohn’s office,

Dr. Clauberg developed a method of mass sterilization. It used a chemical irritant that produced severe inflammation. This caused the fallopian tubes to shut and close. Some of his experiments killed his subjects. Others were put to death so an autopsy could be performed. Dr. Mengele would pick a pair of twins or someone with a physical handicap and conduct painful and exhausting examinations. They could last for hours and were terrifying for children. Photographs, casts of teeth and jaws, and fingerprints and toe prints were taken from the subjects. Once the examinations were over, Dr. Mengele ordered the twins to death by lethal injection. He would then move on to the next phase, analysis of internal organs at autopsy. Interesting specimen were preserved and shipped to the Institute in Berlin-Dahlem for more

Dr.Josef Mengele also known for being “Angel of Death wanted to extend the population of Germany experimenting with the victims that

There are many health professionals out there who do help patients out, but some professionals like doctors don’t know to treat their patients or how to make patients at easy if something goes wrong. The doctors should have a lot of confident, experience, and treat patients with easy. According to “Wedmed” “Doctors traits should be Confident, empathetic, humane, personal, forthright, respectful, and thorough” (2006). The reason is because patients shouldn’t feel like they are patient of some type of game to that they don’t get better. If they don’t want to treat patients and their families right maybe they should not be part of the this type of professional because it does take a lot of schooling and a lot of time form this type of work. There

Josef Mengele/Medical Experimentation – Josef Mengele was a Physician for the SS and he was later a Physician in concentration camps. Mengele was the Physician who chose which person got to be killed or went to work. He was very obsessed with twins. He made experiments on these twins and later these experiments were known as the “Medical Experimentation”. At first he could not kill anyone but later he had the authority to and did many cruel experiments to twins. Mengele was also obsessed with people who had two different color eyes. (USHMM)

Doctors spend years in medical school for one reason: to help people. Physicians should be allowed to help patients in every way, even if it means performing PAS. It is a physician’s duty to relieve suffering (Rogatz 31). A doctor’s main goal is to help patients free themselves of suffering, but if the only relief is death, a

There were 884 million doctor’s visits in the US alone in 2014, another 125 million counting hospital visits. It is clear that society trusts the doctors and nurses that it employs to uphold high standards to carry on with the task of saving lives. Our society doesn’t blink an eye and puts all its faith into doctors without question. Society assumes that all doctors are good and ignores the potential of an immoral doctor. A study conducted by the NCBI showed that 90% of all medical students have witnessed an unethical medical practice performed by the doctors that society had trusted. This means that if you had any doctor’s visits in the last few years, most likely you were a victim of an unethical practice. This is the situation that Henrietta Lacks faced at John Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s. Rebecca Skloot details the accounts of mistreatment and abuse that followed Henrietta Lacks in her novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was an African American mother seeking cancer treatment at John Hopkins Hospitals, who ended up to be one of the biggest medical discoveries at the time. Doctors at the hospital discovered the power of her cells and in doing so abused and misuse Henrietta Lacks in the process, which ultimately led to her death. Although Henrietta Lack’s cells proved to beneficial to millions of people, the misconduct performed by the doctors is uncalled for and violates the oath that every doctor had sworn to. There is no

Specific purpose: To inform the audience about Josef Mengele, a doctor in Auschwitz and a psychological quandary.

What is ironic about this hatred is that Mengele himself was far from being considered physically superior to anyone. In fact, “since childhood, he had been self-conscious of his slightly tawny skin, his penetrating brown-green eyes, and his dark hair. At school he endured taunts from his classmates about his Gypsy looks.';(p. 25 par. 2) It could be seen that his contempt for Gypsies might have arisen due to trauma he endured during childhood from others, as well as a self-imposed trauma he brought upon himself, due to his

The doctor-patient relationship always has been and will remain an essential basis of care, in which high quality information is gathered and procedures are made as well as provided. This relationship is a critical foundation to medical ethics that all doctors should attempt to follow and live by. Patients must also have confidence in their physicians to trust the solutions and work around created to counter act certain illnesses and disease. Doctor-patient relationships can directly be observed in both the stories and poems of Dr. William Carlos Williams as well as in the clinical tales of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Both of these doctors have very similar and diverse relationships with multiple patients