Doctors complicit in torture at CIA, military prisons: study
An independent report says medical professionals helped design, enable and participated in "torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" of detainees.
Collaboration at US prisons in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and the CIA's secret detention sites began after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York.
"It's clear that in the name of national security, the military trumped [the Hippocratic Oath], and physicians were transformed into agents of the military and performed acts that were contrary to medical ethics and practice," said study co-author Gerald Thomson, a professor of medicine emeritus at Columbia University.
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