The doctor came in to give her a shot that she thought was her normal shot for her anemia, but it was not. The doctor said that she would feel a "warm sensation" and then he injected her with uranium salts. This exposed Jeanne to a level of radiation fifty-seven times the amount most people would absorb in a lifetime. The doctor did this without her consent or any one else's consent. Over the next few weeks she became weaker and was monitored by nurses almost twenty-four hours a day. Since she was so weak she did not ask what she was injected with or why she was so sick and could not go home. Finally one month after the injection she was released and the doctor said she just had an allergic reaction to the medication for her anemia. While reading a paper fifty years later Jeanne reads a story about a doctor who injected patients with uranium. She realizes that this was the same doctor and hospital she had gone to. She contacted the government and was given a $400,000 settlement (O"Neill, Eftimiades, and Podesta). Jeanne is the only survivor out of twelve known patients injected with uranium or plutonium. Jeanne was not the first person subject to experimental treatments without consent.
In World War II doctors in Germany began "experimental medicine" in Nazi Concentration Camps. This is wear Jews were subject to inhumane treatments. Dr. Josef Mengele, more familiarly know as the "Angel of Death," was probably the most famous of the Nazi doctors. Mengele wanted to unlock the genetic basis for a superior race, and he conducted experiments on the Nazi prisoners. Mengele was obsessed with twins and he studied all the features of them. One survivor of his twin experiments was Susan Vigorito, and she told the story of her and her twin sister. Susan recalled that she and her sister were placed in a wooden cage a yard and a half wide for a year. During this time her sister died of repeated injections to her spine and Susan's leg bone was scrapped for bone tissue, without anesthetic (Cohen).