Sunday, April 14, 2024

Three Generations of Imbeciles Apparently Isn't Sufficient for University of Virginia Medical School

Ewen Cameron - performed barbaric and idiotic experiments in torture that violated the Nuremberg Code (despite his having been at Nuremberg as a psychiatrist) for decades - History of Psychiatry article. So esteemed by his fellow psychiatrists that he was elected president of the American Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association, and inaugural president of the World Psychiatric Association. What a rigorous specialty! 

Wilford Spradlin - interned at McGill in the late 1950s when Cameron was the psychiatry department's most eminent, albeit idiotic, figure. Has co-authored a whole series of risible New Age books on "reverential phenomena." 

Randolph Canterbury - Spradlin Professor of Psychiatry, tells idiotic and offensive anecdotes to an auditorium full of medical school students while participating in the wholesale violation of medical ethics including the deliberate withholding of medical diagnosis (strabismus) and thus care. His actions constituted ritualistic reenactment of the abuses and overweening physician arrogance displayed in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He thus flagrantly dishonors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., himself the victim of egregious surveillance and mistreatment. 

Given the pace at which UVa and its medical school get around to acknowledging egregious violations of medical ethics, I would expect some form of token apology in about 70 years.

Wow, I was mistaken - physicians really are intellectually and ethically sophisticated!

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