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the current day.
For example, Frankl
describes an address to camp
prisoners who were being
punished with starvation: “[I
told them] they must not lose
hope but should keep their
courage in the certainty that
the hopelessness of our strug-
gle did not detract from its
dignity and its meaning. I said
that someone looks down on
each of us in difficult hours
— a friend, a
wife, some-
body alive
or dead, or a
God — and
he would not
expect us to
disappoint
him.
”
As health
care workers
faced the dif-
ficult hours
of this pan-
demic, and as they face future
challenges that may engender
burnout or even despair, it is
our duty to offer them whatev-
er support we can. The health
care system cannot function
without their hope.
Holocaust memoirs writ-
ten by physicians abound
and, without exception, the
authors recount how deeply
they remained connected to
the spirit of doctoring even
under the most horrid of con-
ditions. In this way, even when
deprived of their clinical spac-
es and the tools of their trades,
they were able to give hope to
people in the ghettos and in
the concentration camps. Even
amidst the often-insurmount-
able encroachment of evil and
death, they fulfilled their pur-
pose to bring healing to their
patients. Elie Wiesel wrote in
the New England Journal of
Medicine, “When I think about
the Nazi doctors, the medical
executioners, I lose hope. To
find it again, I think about the
authors, the victim-doctors.
”
We should not undervalue
the health care heroes of today
and their commitment to our
health. They have remained
true to their professional oaths
in spite of everything. Our
hero doctors have proven they
will be there for us regardless
of the obsta-
cles they face.
They deserve
not only to be
remembered,
but also to be
honored with
more than slo-
gan-support
for what they
have done
and what they
continue to
do.
They are exhibiting the
highest standards of the
teaching, “Who is honored,
one who honors his fellows”
(Pirke Avot, 4:1). Let us work
to salute, in real and tangible
ways, our health care heroes
whose actions merit honor.
Herbert A. Yoskowitz D. Div (hon.)
is rabbi emeritus at Adat Shalom
Synagogue and lecturer at
the Oakland University William
Beaumont School of Medicine.
Jason Adam Wasserman, Ph.D., is an
associate professor at the Oakland
University William Beaumont School
of Medicine. They are the co-au-
thors of “Resistance, Medicine
and Moral Courage: Lessons on
Bioethics from Jewish Physicians
During the Holocaust.” Conatus:
Journal of Philosophy, Volume 4(2);
2019: 359-378.
PROF. DR. FRANZ VESELY, VIA WIKIPEDIA
Dr. Viktor
Frankl
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