From the perspective of a physician involved in clinical practice,
education and research, I have come to the conclusion that killing
and dissecting animals is not only unnecessary,
but also counterproductive in the training of physicians and scientists.

- Dr. David O. Wiebers, Neurologist

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Much of the traditional anatomy curriculum is irrelevant to medical practice and might easily be eliminated.

- Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi , Pathologist

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The suggestion that a surgeon is somehow better because
he or she was trained on animals in medical or in
undergraduate biology, or physiology, or anatomy,
let alone by dissection of frogs in high school,
is totally unfounded.

- Dr. Donald E. Doyle, Surgeon

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Nobody has become a surgeon because of having operated on animals.
He has only learnt wrongly through animals. I have been able to see this
over my many decades as a surgeon and a director of hospitals.

I have carried out tens of thousands of operations on people
without ever performing them first on an animal.
- Professor Salvatore Rocca Rossetti,
Surgeon and Professor of Urology at the University of Turin

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I learned how to operate from other surgeons.
It's the only way, and every good surgeon knows that.
- Dr. Werner Hartinger, Surgeon

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I passed geography without leaving my home state,
and geology without seeing planets collide.
It’s insulting to argue that students can’t understand anatomy
unless they stick scissors into a frog’s brain.
- Mary Pacheco, Student