Robert Truog, MD Biography
- Title:
- Professor of Medical Ethics and Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should the Death Penalty Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“If I think of the kind of a hypothetical where you have an inmate who is about to be executed and knows that this execution may involve excruciating suffering, that inmate requests the involvement of a physician, because he knows that the physician can prevent that suffering from occurring, and if there is a physician who is willing to do that, and we know from surveys that many are, I honestly can’t think of any principle of medical ethics that would say that that is an unethical thing for the physician to do.”
“Perspective Roundtable: Physicians and Execution,” New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 18, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Professor of Medical Ethics and Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School
- Senior Associate, Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston
- Director of Clinical Ethics, Division of Medical Ethics and the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Chair, Harvard Human Subjects Research Committee, Harvard University
- Member, Harvard University Faculty Committee, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
- Recipient, Christopher Grenvik Memorial Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Education:
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- MD, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA, Philosophy, Brown University
- Other:
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- Honorary Masters Degree, Harvard University, 2000
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