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

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63. The AMA code of ethics prohibits doctors' invlvement in torture

Report: U.S. Doctors Participated in Torture After 9/11
Rolling Stone (2013)
Link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/report-u-s-doctors-participated-in-torture-after-9-11-20131104

Excerpt:
""The DoD's policies and procedures are not completely in accord with medical ethics, principles, and guidelines," says Gerald Thomson, professor of medicine at Columbia University and a member of the task force that authored the report. He calls the Department of Defense's hunger strike policy an "egregious" violation of medical ethics, in part because "it didn't happen in secret." He adds that if the medical community and the public at large "can't do anything about that, we all become part of the problem." "

Excerpt:
"The report alleges that military and CIA physicians oversaw the torture of detainees to ensure they didn't suffer "severe harm" – a phrase that comes from a legal definition of torture, in contrast with the traditional professional responsibility of doctors to "do no harm." CIA medical personnel were tasked with being present for waterboarding to perform an emergency tracheotomy if interrogators damaged the detainee's windpipe. "

So moderate harm would be okay, as long as it's not "severe harm" - LE


AMA Opinion 2.067 - Torture
(1999)
Link: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion2067.page

Excerpt: "Torture refers to the deliberate, systematic, or wanton administration of cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatments or punishments during imprisonment or detainment."

"Physicians must oppose and must not participate in torture for any reason. Participation in torture includes, but is not limited to, providing or withholding any services, substances, or knowledge to facilitate the practice of torture. Physicians must not be present when torture is used or threatened."

Doctors and Torture
Herbert Rabatansky, MD
Rhode Island Medical Society, 2008-9
Link:
http://www.rimed.org/medhealthri/2009-08/2009-08-288.pdf

"The American Medical Association (AMA) Code of ethics unequivocally prohibits doctors’ participation in torture. Notably, “participation” includes the monitoring of the victim so that the torture does not “go too far.” "