I have my own personal beliefs of what needs to be done and it is not what is going on at Getmo! Just thought you would like to see some of the things I have been reading from my list of medical journals.
Frankly, I do not think they are being all that open in the medical aspect of things. HOpe you enjoy.
NEJM
Very interesting.
Complex issue. Maybe if we didn’t just grab people, assume they are terrorists, make up brand new classes of badguy, and then try to morally justify it after the fact, it’d be easier.
As for the medical people involved… I believe they really are trying to do what they think is best. Of course, the fact the military pre-screened who got these jobs helped with that. But still, I wonder what they’ll say 10 or 20 years from now about their own roles.
The strain comes through in spite of what they say, doesn’t it? If they truly had nothing to hide, well, then, they wouldn’t be hiding the prisoners from view, would they?
It should be terrible – and frankly, I hope it IS terrible on their consciences – for any psychiatrist, physician, psychologist, nurse, corpsman, to defend caring for people in these circumstances if that care is a matter of hiding or keeping people “functioning” so more terrible things can be done to them.
Kidspeak, I think you are on to something. I have been in the shoes of the corpsman and the nurse role. I have taken both oaths and I must tellyou, I did not take an oath to harm ppl and their lives. Never would I have done some things that have been done in Getmo…NEVER! The medical corps has also been complicit in Iraq and other countries. I shame them for doing what they did and have done.
I read another article from the same journal about the ethics of different medical venues. Do they follow the orders and commands of the military while in the military or do they follow their medical oath they took when becoming one in that chosen profession. I believe the first oath one takes in that chosen profession takes president.
I know many corpsmen who served in the military under war time and they have very certain memories and regrets of said war and the events that took place. The conflict within them are most horrible for them.
I agree. As a psychologist, that’s how I feel when any mental health person is involved in “political control”. That’s what happened to psychiatry in Soviet Russia, and it was terrible for the profession. People who needed help would never seek it, the entire profession was mistrusted.
If you pervert the helpers, what’s left? Children against their parents?