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The experiments done by the doctors that still remain around today as medical knowledge is the main legacy left around by these doctors. There are two main topics in medical knowledge that are based on the findings of the Nazi doctors. The first one of these is the experiment done the most by the Nazis, which was to immerse people in very cold or hot water and see what happens. The impact that this made on modern medicine was that doctors now know the effects on human body parts when exposed to extreme heat or cold. Even though what these doctors did to these prisoners was a terrible thing the knowledge that they acquired o and documented on this topic has undoubtedly helped to save many lives. The other thing that is left over from the Nazi’s experiments that is still used in the medical and scientific communities today is the research that the Nazi’s did of what happens to humans when they inhale Phosgene gas. This is a gas that was mainly used in biological warfare during WWII, the experimentation that the doctors did in this case has also helped to save many soldiers lives.

Obviously in the medical community a rift has formed between those who think the research done by the Nazis should be accepted and those who say it shouldn’t. The main reason that this research has been rejected by some doctors is because of the way that this research has been done. These experiments were harmful and done on human test subjects, which breaks the Hippocratic oath, an oath taken by all doctors, which says, “But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God”(Hippocratic Oath, Lasagna). This passage can be interpreted as meaning that no doctor, even though they have the ability should ever take a life or play god. This rejects the work of the Nazi doctors because they played god with their prisoners and often times medically abused them until the prisoner died.

[|The Hippocratic Oath]

By: Alex Hatch