PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Liebowitz, Jason
TI  - Moral erosion: how can medical professionals safeguard against the slippery slope?
AID  - 10.1136/jmh.2010.006296
DP  - 2011 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 53--55
VI  - 37
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/37/1/53.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/37/1/53.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2011 Jun 01; 37
AB  - The extensive participation of German physicians in the atrocities of the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the potential for moral erosion in medicine. What circumstances and methods of rationalisation allowed doctors to turn from healers into accomplices of genocide? Are physicians still vulnerable to corruption of their guiding principles and, if so, what can be done to prevent this process from occurring? With these thoughts in mind, the author reflects on his experiences participating in the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics program and offers a medical student's perspective on the ethical issues encountered in clinical training and the practice of medicine.