Letters
Conscientious objection in medicine: Doctors' freedom of conscience
BMJ 2006; 332 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7538.425-a (Published 16 February 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;332:425
- Vaughan P Smith, general practitioner (VSmith1951@aol.com)
- Taunton, Somerset TA2 7SZ
EDITOR—Since visiting Auschwitz, I have grappled with the question of how I would have behaved as a doctor in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. I hope I would have had the moral courage to refuse to participate in the various perversions of medicine that these regimes demanded—for example, respectively, eugenic “research” and psychiatric “treatment” of dissidents.1 …
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