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Toronto Hospital's Dr. Jim Kenyon favors using doomed animals from pounds for research.
Toronto Hospital's Dr. Jim Kenyon favors using doomed animals from pounds for research.

Toronto Hospital's Dr. Jim Kenyon favors using doomed animals from pounds for research.

Date5/8/1991
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  • Toronto Hospital's Dr. Jim Kenyon favors using doomed animals from pounds for research.
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Medical students can experiment and practise more effectively on computers and robots than on animals, a Washington physician says. Dr. Neal Barnard, 34, a psychiatrist who founded the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine in 1984, told a seminar yesterday at a Toronto hospital that the medical community must weigh the interests of the animals before using them.
Medical students can experiment and practise more effectively on computers and robots than on animals, a Washington physician says. Dr. Neal Barnard, 34, a psychiatrist who founded the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine in 1984, told a seminar yesterday at a Toronto hospital that the medical community must weigh the interests of the animals before using them.
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