Now here is a story that can make you sick to your stomach. I think this so-called doctor should be arrested and subjected to his own experiment.

From the Seattle PI

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will send an inspector to a hospital where a neurosurgeon demonstrating a medical device to salespeople deliberately induced a brain aneurysm in a dog, which was later destroyed.

The Cleveland Clinic, known for its heart center and for treating high-profile patients such as royalty, said that it had not authorized the procedure. The hospital reported itself to the USDA, which regulates animal testing.

A neurosurgeon caused the brain aneurysm in the anesthetized animal Wednesday at the clinic’s Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland to demonstrate a medical device to a group of 20 to 25 salespeople. The large, mixed-breed dog was destroyed afterward because of the damage caused by the aneurysm, the clinic said.

Yes, you read it right. This arrogant asshold of a doctor, who is supposed to have some regard for life, tortured and killed a dog to demonstrate a device to salespeople. Salespeople. Let’s repeat that a few times. He killed a dog for a demo to non-medical geeks whose only interest is in selling the product.

Could he have used a dummy? Of course. But did he? No.

The Cleveland Clinic will not release his name or say if he has been suspended. I think he should be fired, be stripped of his medical license, and then used for the next demo. He thinks that salespeople need to see a living specimen. Well, we got a volunteer, and let’s induce an aneurysm on him while he is wide awake.

I wonder what the salespeople thought. I would have stopped the procedure and called the police, the Humane Society, the press, PETA, anyone. And then plastered his name all over the news. Is this the kind of neurosurgeon you want digging into your brain?