<<Yet another Zionist who wants to be a Nazi>>
You went the Jews Killed ,so who is the
NAZI?
gee its good enough for you as a citizen of the US,that the United States ended its Indian Problems ,but not good enough for Israel?
Are these the Muslim people trying to drive the Jews into the sea?
The stated goals of all the muslims in that area is to drive Israel into the sea!
You sound like you never heard this statment?
Gee whiz
tommy since you were in diapers this is their stated goal,even supposed educated muslims:
likud.nl
These Jew haters in the Muslim world have not and are not today shy informing Israel about their intentions!
These Muslim gov`t you defend have the worst abuses of HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE PLANET isn`t that IRONIC?
keep those women in burqas ..
Tom what about women in these countries?
What about slaves in Saudi?
Do you know that in Saudi to enter the country you have to have a sponsor?
Apon arrival in Saudi you sponsor takes your passport!
Without your passport you cannot leave Saudi!
Sometimes the sponsor leaves the kingdom and no one that he sponsored can leave the country,for months on end.
Is this involuntary slavery?
This happpens constantly to Americans in Saudi.
Have you ever Heard of an American not being able to leave Israel?
Tom
Do doctors in the United States practice and assist
in Torture?
IRAQI PHYSICIAN COMPLICITY IN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
On a somewhat darker note, a report in the current Volume of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) assesses the extent of physician involvement in human rights abuses in Iraq during the regime of Saddam Hussein. In June and July of 2003, the study’s authors surveyed 98 Iraqi physicians at 3 major hospitals in southern Iraq. These Iraqi doctors independently completed research surveys, while another group of hospital directors and physicians underwent more structured interviews. It should be noted that 88% of the participating physicians were male, and 97% were Shi’a Muslims (approximately 60% of the Iraqi populace are thought to be Shi’a Muslims, and this segment of the population was brutally repressed by the Saddam Hussein regime).
Sadly, 71% of the physician respondents reported physician involvement in torture was a very common occurrence in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. According to the physicians’ surveys, 50% of their physician peers directly participated in physician-assisted or physician-conducted “nontherapeutic” amputations of ears, 49% falsified medical records to conceal acts of torture, and 32% falsified the death certificates of people who died following torture. Not surprisingly, only a handful of the study’s volunteers reported participation in such activities…. At the same time, 52% of the surveyed doctors indicated that physicians taking part in torture-related activities did so involuntarily, and 93% of the respondents stated that the Iraqi paramilitary force Fedayeen Saddam was primarily responsible for compelling physician participation in such activities. Complicit physicians explained their coerced participation in torture-related activities in terms of fear for their families’ safety, as well as fear of harm to themselves. Physicians who refused to participate in human rights abuses reported the subsequent loss of their jobs, imprisonment, or torture, while other noncompliant physicians simply “disappeared.” When asked what could be done to reduce the potential for future physician involvement in human rights abuses, 99% of the respondents recommended increased human rights and ethics training for Iraqi physicians, 97% recommended a tightening of laws regulating physician behavior, 96% advised that punitive sanctions against physicians participating in such abuses should be enhanced, and 95% of the respondents suggested that a mechanism be devised to ensure independence of physician from state authorities.
While the veracity of these disturbing allegations cannot be independently verified, they nonetheless suggest at least some significant level of physician involvement in state-sanctioned torture and other human rights abuses in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Previous instances of physician complicity in human rights abuses are hardly unknown, including large-scale human experimentation and mass-murder by Nazi and Japanese physicians during World War II, and the more recent tortures and genocidal actions committed by Taliban physicians in Afghanistan, and by the Bosnian-Serbian psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic, all of whom remain at large still. Of course, physician-murderers are not always involved in state-sanctioned thuggery. In 2000, British physician Harold Shipman was sentenced to 15 concurrent life sentences after being convicted of murdering an estimated 260 patients over a period of at least 20 years, making him the most prolific mass-murderer in British history. (He later committed suicide in his cell in January of this year.)
Primum non nocerum, or, first do no harm, is a fundamental precept for the vast majority of physicians throughout the world. However, in the setting of totalitarian states bent on terrorizing its citizens, history has shown that some physicians will violate this precept, either willingly or unwillingly, and sometimes in egregious ways. As a physician, I cannot think of a more tragic and reprehensible abuse of medical knowledge and training than to use them to intentionally inflict harm on another human being. |
