Why Does Medical Participation in the Holocaust Still Matter?

As we synthesized this issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics, the medical profession was grappling with some of the most challenging ethical problems in generations: a viral pandemic with anticipated shortages of critical resources and, in the United States, lack of national coordination around COVID-19 testing, tracking, and prevention and treatment, all of which exacerbated and put a floodlight on underlying racial, geographic, health, and socioeconomic inequities.