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are you sure?

i seem to remember that Milgram was one of those examples they used in the ethics portion of all my Social Psych (my degree is in Comm, a branch of Social Psych) pre-req courses.

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Yes they do use that example because it's become some kind of myth. I've debated this subject at large (I'm a psychology student) and have read articles from Milgram and from his detractors from back then.

To address the distress caused to the subjects argument, Milgram offered them psychological assistance right after the experiment. Also, months later to shut up his critics he mailed all of his subjects a questionnaire asking if they regretted participating to the study or if they liked it, etc. and only something like an absurdly low % like 0,3 reported negative feelings.

I work on some experiments in that field and I am certain that more than that amount of subjects hate participating to our experiments (of course they're paid...)