Senior Physicians in Israel Experimented on Elderly Patients
Israel News reports:Four senior doctors at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and the Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera were arrested yesterday on suspicion of carrying out hundreds of illegal experiments on elderly patients without their consent.
The doctors - including Shmuel Levy, deputy director of Kaplan-Hartzfeld, who was responsible for Hartzfeld; Nadya Kagansky; and Alona Smirnov - are suspected of wrongful death through negligence, abuse of helpless victims, aggravated assault, fraud, violation of a statutory obligation and interference in an investigation.
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court yesterday extended the remand for Levy and Kagansky by three days and put Smirnov under house arrest for five days. A fourth suspect was released. Police searched the homes of all four suspects and confiscated documents.
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I have a horrible empty feeling--just two days ago I finished reading George Annas' book on the Nazi doctors and the Nuremburg Code.
- by Tom Preston on Oct 14, 2006 at 2:41 PM | link
I'll never forget a panel discussion by doctors at the University of Chicago at which I was lectured as if I were a little chlid by a doctor who claimed there was no need for regulating doctors in their use of human subjects. We must trust doctors, little girl, because of course doctors only want to help people. When I rattled off six or seven shocking incidents of research abuse in the United States within the past 30 years, the doctor was speechless. He could not believe anyone could imagine that a doctor would ever do anything harmful to anyone on purpose. And the facts were simply inconsequential.
- by nobody particular on Oct 18, 2006 at 11:43 PM | link