http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/19/doctors.torture/index.htmlA leading bioethicist charges in a prestigious British medical journal that U.S. military medical personnel are complicit in abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and suggests an inquiry into their behavior in places such as Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, is in order.
An editorial in The Lancet was accompanied by an article that cites government documents and news reports that found medical personnel responsible for treating prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq "failed to protect detainees' human rights, sometimes collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings."
The Pentagon denied the allegations, saying the article was drawn from "carefully selected media reports" and excerpts of testimony from congressional hearings, "not first-hand investigative work or accounts."
Dr. Steven H. Miles, a professor in the center for bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, said his review of the documents revealed that medical staff failed to maintain medical records, conduct routine medical examinations or properly care for disabled or injured detainees.
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