Mother Of God... No Wonder The CIA Doesn't Want The Report To Come Out...

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39. Guantanamo docs were as compassionate as Josef Mengeles & the Nazi death camp doctors.

I'll tell you about a compassionate doctor. My 63 year old orthopedic surgeon, whose dad was a minister, spends a MONTH each year performing surgery in Nigeria at a mission hospital. And the rest of the year he takes time to consult by email, including reviewing xrays & other tests to supervise treatments in Nigeria. He is considered the best orthopod in my area - the one the other docs go to for treatment/surgery. He obviously gives up a considerable amount of income each year to travel to Africa and spend a month there donating his services, not to mention the time each week in consulting with doctors at the mission hospital.

Physicians aren't gods and don't deserve a presumption of saintliness. Furthermore they all took an oath to do no harm. Notwithstanding that oath, some physicians are far more skilled than others, and some have a much stronger commitment to medical ethics than others. Several family members, friends and I myself have each been the victim of negligent or greed-motivated misdiagnoses & treatments by physicians over the decades. That's why we all do lots of medical research online and once we find a top specialist in one field, we turn to them for references for specialists in other fields.

And from the New England Journal of Medicine/ Reuters, via Huffington Post

By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger strikers at the Guantanamo detention camp because it violates their ethical obligations, two doctors and a medical ethics professor wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

"Force-feeding a competent person is not the practice of medicine; it is aggravated assault," the trio said in an article posted on the website of the respected medical journal.

"Physicians at Guantanamo cannot permit the military to use them and their medical skills for political purposes and still comply with their ethical obligations," wrote Doctors Sondra Crosby and Leonard Glantz, and George Annas, a lawyer who chairs the Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Department at Boston University.

The detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba holds 166 men captured in counterterrorism operations, more than half of whom have been cleared for release during U.S. military and intelligence reviews.

A report released today has made disturbing allegations that doctors and psychologists working with the US military designed methods for - and became involved in - the systematic torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

The Taskforce on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers found that, in the decade after 9/11, US military physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists allowed 'cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment' of prisoners while acting at the direction of military leaders under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.

Described as a 'big, big, striking horror' by one member of the 19-man panel, the report suggests that doctors who had taken the Hippocratic Oath advised the military on how best to deploy waterboarding, sleep deprivation and sensory overloading to get information out of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
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