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What Human Rights?
We should be pleased that someone finally had to courage to ask an obvious question: What did the medical staff do after treating the abused detainees in Abu Ghraib?
According to Steven Miles, a physician at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, there was at least one instance in which medical staff left after reviving a prisoner who collapsed after a beating, allowing the abuse to continue.
How complicit are doctors in abuses of detainees?
The emerging evidence is that doctors and other medical personnel have helped, covered up, or stood by silently when humiliation, degrading treatment, and physical abuses have taken place. There is also evidence of falsifying and delaying death certificates, and covering up homicides.
Should doctors be more concerned about the well being of their patients or their loyalty to the country? Do doctors have any principles of medical ethics?
But as Dr Miles said, “….the described offences do not merely fall short of medical ideals; some constitute grave breaches of international or US law.”
Posted on August 20, 2004 11:09 PM
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