Surgical Ethics Education Resources #28

[Sent – 15 February 2020 to the 170+ surgeons et al of our Surgical Ethics (Education) Consortium]

Good afternoon. Given the recognition a few weeks ago of the 75th anniversary of the 27 January 1945 liberation of Auschwitz, I thought it would be timely/appropriate to send you as ‘Surgical Ethics Education Resources #28’ the two articles (links below) re the classic Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy that was created by a Viennese anatomy professor (Eduard Pernkopf) and his team during the Nazi years who drew the remarkably detailed illustrations from dissections of concentration victims. One attachment is a personal essay by Susan Mackinnon, MD, that was published recently in the British Medical Journal. Dr. Mackinnon -- a senior plastic surgery faculty member in our department -- was the lead surgeon in the surgical case that anchors the second attachment. This second attachment – published in the journal Surgery last year (and sent to you as ‘Surgical Ethics Education Resources #15’ last April) -- is a comprehensive analysis of the sensitive, complicated, and controversial issues associated with using the Pernkopf atlas in training and in practice. Dr. Mackinnon is the lead author of this article, with several of us in our department as co-authors. I appreciate very much the opportunity to have contributed to and to be associated with these publications, primarily by adapting the case-centered approach to surgical ethics education we use in our professionalism/ethics surgery clerkship curriculum and in our 4th-year surgical ethics challenges elective. Doug

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0039606018304811?token=13DCD85DB167DCD05EED2B74759FD64C21396F92FE303D60F4F02269E497F8CC5F3BC2D6AC09E115258AC50E6750E1B8

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l7075

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