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Letters |15 May 2012

Exposing Unethical Human Research

Howard M. Spiro, MD

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  • From Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.

    Dr. Spiro passed away on 11 March 2012.

    Potential Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.

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TO THE EDITOR:
Gaw's report (1) of the Beecher–Pappworth correspondence deserves widespread discussion. Unless academic physicians discuss the sins of the past over and over again, how can we hope to prevent them in the future?
As a 1947 graduate of Harvard Medical School and intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in the 1940s, I remember learning of an unspoken though implicit medical compact between ward patients and hospital doctors: We took care of them for free, and in return they gave us their bodies to study.
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Spiro HM. Exposing Unethical Human Research. Ann Intern Med. 2012;156:754. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-10-201205150-00022

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2012;156(10):754.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-10-201205150-00022

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