i want to go to medical school but would i be required to perform sadistic and torturous "useful experiments" on live animals?? (examples: shocking mice, injecting drugs into monkeys' eyes)
2007-09-20 10:55:29 · 5 answers · asked by ghj g 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
how can someone say a "brain dead" animal cant feel anything. a person who is brain dead is still treated with respect and dignity, and the same should be applied to other animals. how can you go home to your family after torturing another living breathing creature
2007-09-21 08:48:19 · update #1
I don't know what medical school the previous answerers went to, but we've never done any experiments on live animals at our school. We used human tissues, human brains, etc--all from people who donated their bodies to the school after death.
So I guess the answer is maybe--depends on where you go to school. Find out what the curriculum requires at the schools you are interested in.
2007-09-20 13:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by knowitall 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only animal work I experienced in medical school was on anesthetized dogs in physiology lab. The dogs were asleep and we injected several drugs (like atropine and epinephrine, which are used in humans) to show how the drugs affect blood pressure and heart rate. The dogs were from the SPCA and were humanely euthanized after the study (they would have been put to sleep by the SPCA anyway). There were 4-6 students per dog, so we did a lot of watching.
They were not 'tortured' in the manner you suggest, and the types of experiments you describe are not part of normal medical school curricula.
This is a question you could ask when you apply to or visit medical schools. Typically you will be shown around by a medical student as part of the campus tour, so you could ask the student if you are uncomfortable asking an interviewer.
I do not think this is a major issue and should not deter you from applying to med school if you really want to be a doctor. I suspect that if you express strong reservations about any animal study, you would not have to actively participate. Depending on the study, you could either watch, or not be present at all. However, you would still be responsible for learning the material.
2007-09-21 19:50:13 · answer #2 · answered by wanderkind 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest physiology experiment in medical school is on living muscle nerve preparation of frog`s gastrocnemius. But the frog was brain dead long back. The muscle responds to electrical stimulus of the nerve. The contraction is recorded on smoked paper. We experimented on brain dead frogs and rabbits in pharmacology also. Remember a beheaded chicken is brain dead and swapping of wings is a reflex response. We never did any experiment on animals who were aware of pain.
2007-09-21 02:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, but there is also a difference in unreasonable infliction of pain on an Innocent animal and helping someone who is in severe pain get better. the frog was murdered and tortured. a patient is already not well and true you may inflict pain on them during a procedure but it is for their own good.
2007-09-20 19:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we did a so sadistic experiment on a frog for CNS evaluation, we cut her head with scissors distroyed its spinal cord with a pin and dipped its leg in sulphuric acid.
if you cannot handle it then think twice about being a doctor doctors see things which are worse and sometimes painful to their patients.
2007-09-20 18:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by بهي الطلعه 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋