All medical eponyms should be abandoned.

son In his article ‘‘Pas d’éponyme pour les médecins nazis’’, Dr. Halioua called for the separation of eponyms associated with Nazi physicians from the diseases which carry their names [1]. I would like to echo this appeal. In some cases the responsibility the named physician had for human rights abuses and war crimes has been made very clear, as in the case of Hans Reiter. In others the direct responsibility is less clear, as we discovered in researching the background of Friedrich Wegener [2, 3]. Like Reiter, Wegener was an early convert to the Nazi cause, joining the party in 1932, before Hitler took power in 1933. Also like Reiter, Wegener was not tried for participation in the genocide of the Third Reich, but he served as a high-ranking official in an organization, the Schutzstaffel (SS), which was dedicated to this end. In in-