Cardiologists Heart Dogs


Posted on Jan 7, 2008
By Julia Szabo

Among America's 126 medical schools, 11 still sacrifice animals for teaching, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. But now, dogs will no longer be used for that purpose.
 
According to an article in The New York Times, by next month, all American medical schools will have abandoned the old-school method of teaching cardiology: operating on dogs to examine their beating hearts, then destroying the dogs after the lesson.
 
The last holdout was Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, whose dean, Dr. Pamela Davis, said the school would no longer operate on dogs after this month.
 
On November 19, New York Medical College announced it would close its dog laboratory; New York's 11 other medical schools already have.
 
Francis Belloni, a dean at New York Medical College, told the Times that in studying heart function, his students now use echocardiograms - not of live dogs, but of live medical students. 


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