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#86 - Nazi Doctors | Hedy Wald, David Shuster, Ashley Fernandes

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The Ethical Frontier
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Feb 8, 2026
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You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Hedy S. Wald, PhD is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program, and Commissioner, Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. https://vivo.brown.edu/display/hwald David Shuster is director of the Medicine and the Holocaust course and clinical assistant professor in orthopaedics and plastic surgery. https://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2020/12/23/boonshofts-david-b-shuster-honored-for-improving-quality-of-life-for-people-with-disabilities/david-shuster/ Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/ashley-kr-fernandes Summary:This podcast was recorded right after the Medicine and the Holocaust conference hosted at Wright State University. We discuss how some doctors participated in the Holocaust, what caused them to participate, and what we need to do to prevent it from happening again.