Exclusive: Doctor who trained U.S. troops suspended for macabre techniques

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since retiring from the U.S. Army in 2000, Dr. John Henry Hagmann has helped train thousands of soldiers and medical personnel in how to treat battlefield wounds. His company, Deployment Medicine International, has received more than $10.5 million in business from the federal government.

The taxpayer-funded training has long troubled animal rights activists, who contend that Hagmann’s use of live, wounded pigs to simulate combat injuries is unnecessarily cruel.

But an investigation by Virginia medical authorities alleges that pigs weren’t the doctor’s only training subjects.

During instructional sessions in 2012 and 2013 for military personnel, Hagmann gave trainees drugs and liquor, and directed them to perform macabre medical procedures on one another, according to a report issued by the Virginia Board of Medicine, the state agency that oversees the conduct of doctors.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-doctor-trained-u-troops-suspended-macabre-techniques-205555888.html

[FlatBaroque]

1. The moral rot that has infected this country's

institutions is not going to go away easily. This is truly depressing.

[Nitram]

4. Yes, Flat, cases like this are terrible.

But I don't agree with you that it is a sign of moral rot of the country's institutions. Things aren't that bad. Even many police forces are responding to demands for change. It takes time. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[Dustlawyer]

2. For 10.5 million he didn't have a course curricula, lesson plans, lab plans, etc?

Typical!

[Nitram]

5. The article doesn't say he didn't have a curriculum, etc

Working for the federal government, a curriculum would have been required and approved. The incidents reported here were apparently of the books experiments of his own. An American Mengele.

[Dustlawyer]

6. Then he either did not put most of this crap in it, or they didn't read it!

[Kali]

3. now he can get funding from pETA instead