Cruelty to Pigs Alert - Immediate Action Needed
Help End This Weekend's Cruel Pig Lab at Vanderbilt University
I received this action alert from Ryan Merkley
Manager of Humane Education Programs, PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine):
________
This weekend, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville plans to perform emergency medical procedures on live pigs before killing them. Please tell the school’s dean that this needs to stop.
Please call, e-mail, or write a letter to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine dean Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D. Ask Dr. Balser to replace the use of pigs in all Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses with validated nonanimal training methods. Being polite is the most effective way to help these animals and improve medical education.
Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean, School of Medicine
D-3300 MCN 2104
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232
E-mail: jeff.balser@vanderbilt.edu
Phone Number: 615-936-3030
While participants in the ATLS program at Vanderbilt still cut open the airways of live pigs and insert tubes and needles into the animals’ hearts and chest cavities, more than 90 percent of U.S. ATLS programs use only human-based medical simulators.
If you have any questions, please contact me at rmerkley@pcrm.org
Thanks so much for your help!
Best regards,
Ryan Merkley
Manager of Humane Education Programs, PCRM
______
How we can help:
Send an automatic e-mail from the PCRM.org website.
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Subscribe to future PCRM e-mail communications
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I received this action alert from Ryan Merkley
Manager of Humane Education Programs, PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine):
________
This weekend, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville plans to perform emergency medical procedures on live pigs before killing them. Please tell the school’s dean that this needs to stop.
Please call, e-mail, or write a letter to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine dean Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D. Ask Dr. Balser to replace the use of pigs in all Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses with validated nonanimal training methods. Being polite is the most effective way to help these animals and improve medical education.
Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean, School of Medicine
D-3300 MCN 2104
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232
E-mail: jeff.balser@vanderbilt.edu
Phone Number: 615-936-3030
While participants in the ATLS program at Vanderbilt still cut open the airways of live pigs and insert tubes and needles into the animals’ hearts and chest cavities, more than 90 percent of U.S. ATLS programs use only human-based medical simulators.
If you have any questions, please contact me at rmerkley@pcrm.org
Thanks so much for your help!
Best regards,
Ryan Merkley
Manager of Humane Education Programs, PCRM
______
How we can help:
Send an automatic e-mail from the PCRM.org website.
Read more about human-based alternatives
Subscribe to future PCRM e-mail communications
To AstroStar.com
Lucky Horoscopes
Astrology Recipes
Labels: cruelty to live animals for medical procedures, cruelty to pigs, PCRM, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
