Guest guest Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 ACT/ Stabbing Pigs To Teach Human Surgery? 5/3/08: Stabbing Pigs To Teach Human Surgery? EMAIL kinshipcircle FOR WORD DOC OF A FORMATTED LETTER. Easily modify letter (below) & copy/paste it into an email, print out to fax or mail. Pigs used in laboratory research. This photo is NOT from Hartford Hospital. =========================================================== FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Sample letter follows. =========================================================== Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street; Hartford, CT 06102 main ph: 860-545-5000; main fax: 860-545-5066 web mail: http://www.harthosp.org/PatientVisitors/ContactUs/ContactForm/default.aspx Mr. Elliot Joseph, President and CEO ph: 860 545-2100; email: ejoseph Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, Director, Trauma Program/ATOM ph: 860-545-3112; fax: 860-545-5132; email: ljacobs Erica Thompson, Coordinator, ATOM program ph: 860-545-3766; email: ethomps Liz Pelletier, Animal Research Facility Manager/IACUC member ph: 860-545-3164; email: epellet Dr. Laurine Bow, Director, Research Program email: lbow =========================================================== EMAIL BLOCK: All emails found. Some contacts have no available email. =========================================================== ejoseph, ljacobs, ethomps, epellet, lbow *Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During campaigns, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. Emails from government, corporate, or institute websites may be incorrect. =========================================================== SAMPLE LETTER -- This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue. Try to shorten and personalize your letter before sending. =========================================================== Dear Mr. Joseph, Drs. Jacobs and Bow, Ms. Pelletier and Ms. Thompson: As an advocate of viable medical research and training, I am dismayed Hartford Hospital relies upon old-fashioned animal experimentation for its Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM) course. I understand Hartford Hospital, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, oversees a 3-hour lab for which students pay $1,500 to injure adult pigs. The animals are stabbed in various organs of the abdomen and chest, including the bowel, bladder, kidney, diaphragm, liver, spleen and heart. Each month, five pigs undergo 14 different mutilations. After prolonged confinement, they either die during the drills or are destroyed at the end of the session. U.S. Department of Agriculture documents show Hartford Hospital regularly holds more than 100 pigs for ATOM exercises, along with mice, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and sheep for use in other experiments. Deliberately maiming pigs delays knowledge and squanders the state's resources. Experimenters cannot replicate human conditions in animals with physiological, cellular, genetic and psychological attributes significantly different from our own. Please join over 95% of American medical schools that do not use animals in surgical training. Most Advanced Trauma Life support courses have discarded live animal labs and the American College of Surgeons no longer recommends animal experimentation in its curriculum. I urge you to use animal-free techniques with human-focused results -- such as virtual reality simulators, hands-on physician mentoring, cadavers mechanically equipped to pump artificial blood through vessels and emulate live human surgery, etc. Animal-free research supplies data relevant to humans. It deletes overhead to confine, feed, conduct autopsies, and dispose of laboratory animals. A New England Journal of Medicine report (2007) highlights the "very detailed feedback and...more subtle measurement of trainee performance" surgical students gain from use of virtual reality simulators. Furthermore, the article summarizes, inanimate models are "safe, reproducible, portable, readily available, and...cost-effective." Please terminate the use of live animals in surgical courses at Hartford Hospital. Animal labs not only numb students to pain and suffering, but also dissuade them from evolving with the most credible and proficient technologies available. Thank you for your valuable time and consideration. Sincerely, =========================================================== SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS =========================================================== Hartford Hospital is hell for animals http://www.uchckillsmonkeys.com/harthosp.html Justin Goodman, CONNECTICUT FOR ANIMALS http://connecticutforanimals.blogspot.com http://www.uchckillsmonkeys.com justin_goodman Help us put FACTS in front of people! PLEASE DONATE: http://www.kinshipcircle.org/donation/ Your tax-deductible donation helps Kinship Circle pay to print our literature in bulk, so we may: Distribute mass quantities at conferences and exhibits nationwide. 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