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jrtomhttp://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/06/scott-allen-md-lead.html
For those concerned about triggering, the article does not discuss any specific techniques, although it does mention one or two.
As a framing exercise: if you are an M.D. who is tasked with keeping torture safe, you have a practical problem. Set aside the ethical problem for a moment. How do you know how to do it?
...in order to do the job the medical monitors were given to do, it left them two choices, both of which were awful:
One, they could just wing it. You're talking about techniques that carry high risks of PTSD, but also high risks of physical injury and death...So I think it's certainly possible that while they weren't eagerly looking forward to setting up research they might have been backed into this by saying, let's take notes.
...Now, whether they considered it research or not is irrelevant. There are some crimes for which you must prove intent. Human subject protections have no such qualifier. Particularly when there's risk for injury to the subject, you've crossed that line.
For those concerned about triggering, the article does not discuss any specific techniques, although it does mention one or two.
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Date: 8 June 2010 03:21 (UTC)I just recently attended my little sister's graduation from med school. She took the Hippocratic Oath. In front of me, she took it, with a hundred of her classmates. At the same time, my father stood to my left, and my wife stood to my right and recited it along with her.
There are various versions online. I just about wept, again, reading them.
Some oaths are more serious than others. These bastards should be banned from the practice of medicine, and from the polite company of their peers, for life. No excuses.