Clearly,
protection of the integrity of medical ethics is important for all of society.
If medicine becomes, as Nazi medicine did, the handmaiden of economics,
politics, or any force other than one that promotes the good of the patient, it
loses its soul and becomes an instrument that justifies oppression and the
violation of human rights. . . Hitler, like his counterparts in Stalinist
Russia and Imperial Japan, recruited medicine at the very beginning of his
regime. Physicians should have refused. Even Hitler would probably not have
prevailed against a united profession exerting its collective moral power. But
the caduceus joined the swastika in a lethal symbiosis that cost millions of
lives and forever branded German medicine as a traitor to every tradition that
ever made medicine a beneficent rather than a maleficent enterprise. Read the
complete article at -- http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergNews8_15_97.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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