Abu Ghraib medical personnel helped with torture cover-up

[donsu]

http://www.democrats.com/

Many of Abu Ghraib's Worst Horrors were Perpetrated - then Covered Up by Medical Personnel

Under the Sun: "The prestigious medical journal The Lancet has just published a report about military medical establishment's complicity and participation in torture in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan and elsewhere. According to the journal, U.S. military medical personnel helped design the torture, participated in it, issued blatantly false "natural cause" death certificates for people tortured to death, and even inserted fake IV catheters into corpses for purposes of cover-up -- "uh, he's not dead; he slipped and fell in the shower and we're just taking him to the hospital." Here's an excerpt: "An Abu Ghraib prisoner's deposition reports the crutch that he used because of a broken leg was taken from him and his leg was beaten as he was ordered to renounce Islam. The same detainee told a guard that the prison doctor had told him to immobilise a badly injured shoulder; the guard's response was to suspend him from the shoulder."


http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2004/08/index.html

Medical Personnel Complicit in Abu Ghraib Torture, says the Lancet


I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity; the health of my patient will be my first consideration. ... I shall not permit considerations of religion, nationality, race, party politics, or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patient;

The Modern Hippocratic Oath Adopted by the General Assembly of the World Medical Association at Geneva in 1948.


The prestigious medical journal The Lancet has just published a report about military medical establishment's complicity and participation in torture in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan and elsewhere. According to the journal, U.S. military medical personnel helped design the torture, participated in it, issued blatantly false "natural cause" death certificates for people tortured to death, and even inserted fake IV catheters into corpses for purposes of cover-up -- "uh, he's not dead; he slipped and fell in the shower and we're just taking him to the hospital."

I don't think I can summarize the article with justice. Here's a depressing excerpt:

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Finally, although knowledge of torture and degrading treatment was widespread at Abu Ghraib and known to medical personnel, there is no report before the January 2004 Army investigation of military health personnel reporting abuse, degradation, or signs of torture.
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sadly watching the Hippocratic Oath crumble

[tom_paine]

1. The Hippocratic Oath only works well in Free nations, NOT places

like Imperial Amerika.

Totalitarian Nations like Amerika are fertile ground for Menegeles.

God, one wonders what the Busheviks Doctors will be sanctioning in 2050?

Human Skin Lampshades?

Naaah. That would be bad PR.

[merh]

2. What you say is so true, like

those doctors that will not prescribe birth control ("pro-lifers") or
those that won't treat lawyers or members of the lawyers family and staff.

That oath has no meaning to many Amerikuns - nothing to see here, move on.....

:nopity:

[tom_paine]

3. exactly. meaningless.