Table 5.

Students’ Opinions on Whether a Particular Situation Violates or Exposes a Violation of the Original Hippocratic Oath.

Salk polio vaccine trials	8 (15%)
Nuremberg medical trials	35 (66%)
Wrong-eye surgery and altered medical records from book Waking Up Blind: Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery	22 (42%)
Kermit Gosnell abortion and infanticide murder trial	26 (49%)
Tuskegee syphilis experiments	41 (77%)
Physician-assisted suicide	33 (62%)
California forced-sterilization practices in prisons and mental institutions	39 (74%)
Withholding nutrition and hydration from patients in a chronic vegetative state (e.g., Terri Schiavo case)	13 (24%)
Unnecessary cardiac surgeries done on normal patients documented in the book Coronary	29 (55%)
New York lawsuit detailing organ harvesting from patients not yet meeting the criteria of brain death	29 (55%)
China’s forced one-child limit family policy	15 (28%)

Note: n = 53.