"Doctors and the Shoah, how many graduated doctors sent to die, the Hippocratic oath...”. Senator for life Liliana Segre, who survived deportation to Auschwitz, spoke during a hearing at Palazzo Madama. "When the selections for execution took place”, Segre recalled, “all the female prisoners, in groups, naked, had to enter through a door.  A group of doctors would observe them, deciding who would go out and who would not. I was part of these selections two or three times, and as you can see, I am here today”, she continued. "But I was stopped, and being stopped by the three doctors was a moment when the heart stopped. The year before, I had undergone an appendectomy, fortunately, and I had—and still have—a large scar on my stomach”. “The doctor, whose identity I later discovered", Segre continues, "stopped and laid his finger on the scar, saying to the others, 'What a horrible incision these doctors made—such a large cut on such a young girl...’. I was there, more dead than alive, and I overheard these individuals debating about how ugly the scar was. Obviously, I was terrified that this scar was so ugly that it might send me to the right instead of the left. But after discussing the scar for a long time, they finally said: ‘Go ahead.’ I was still able to work. The halt lasted a few minutes: 80 years later, I picture myself there naked, those three individuals and their astonished fingers on my scar", recalls the senator for life.